接

Core sense is contact or intersection. This includes:

• Physical joining: connecting, grafting, or catching an object in motion.
• Social reception: receiving guests, envoys, or arrivals.
• Temporal/sequential continuity: continuing, following, or succeeding a previous event, person, or narrative thread.
• Spatial adjacency: bordering or being adjacent to.

• Transitive: Used as "to connect X to Y" or "to receive X."
• Resultative function: When paired with a verb of motion, it can function as a resultative complement marking the moment movement terminates in contact (the goal of the motion).

Contrast with 截 (jié): while both involve intersection and are phonetically similar, they are semantic opposites. 接 joins or receives; 截 cuts off, intercepts, or severs.