继往开来 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 繼往開來 jìwǎngkāilái ㄐㄧˋ ㄨㄤˇ ㄎㄞ ㄌㄞˊ to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) part of a historical transition forming a bridge between earlier and later stages Character by character 继(jì)continue 往(wǎng)go 开(kāi)open 来(lái)come A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0