陆续
Meaning
- in turn
- successively
- one after the other
Example sentence
客人们陆续到了。
The guests arrived one after another.
Characters in 陆续
- 陆 lù land, dry ground; a continent
- 续 xù to continue, to extend
陆 land plus 续, to continue. Here 陆 carries its sense of successive; the word means one after another.