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The characterizing set-valued functions were introduced for uninorms with continuous underlying functions and these set-valued functions were useful for the complete characterization of such uninorms. In this work we study the characterizing functions of n-uninorms with continuous underlying t-norms and t-conorms. We will show that an n-uninorm with continuous underlying functions possesses n characterizing set-valued functions, where the graphs of these characterizing set-valued functions cover the set of all points of discontinuity of the respective n-uninorm. Moreover, for i=1,…,n, the i-th characterizing set-valued function divides the unit square into the two sets, where below the graph of the i-th characterizing set-valued function the n-uninorm attains values smaller than the local neutral element ei and above the graph of the i-th characterizing set-valued function the n-uninorm attains values greater than the local neutral element ei.