You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Shell (bèi) Entry: Gēng Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 1209, Entry 01 Pronounced gēng. Book of Documents (Shujing), section titled Benefits to the Succession (Yiji): Then they continued the song. Commentary: Geng means to continue. Also, according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced gèng (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Also, according to Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), this is the ancient form of the character for continue. Note: See the entry under Radical: Silk (mì), fifteen strokes, for further details.