進

Han character

進 (radical 162, 辵+8, 12 strokes in Chinese, 11 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 卜人土 (YOG), four-corner 3030₁, composition ⿺辶隹)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 進
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 辵 (“walk”) + 隹 (“short-tail bird”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

進

1. to advance; to move forward
2. to enter; to go into; to come into

   • 一個女孩進了房間 [MSC, trad.]
     一个女孩进了房间 [MSC, simp.]

     yī ge nǚhái jìn le fángjiān [Pinyin]

     a girl came into the room

3. (used after a verb) into; in

   • 她把買來的東西裝進了轎車。 [MSC, trad.]
     她把买来的东西装进了轿车。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā bǎ mǎi lái de dōngxī zhuāng jìn le jiàochē. [Pinyin]

     She loaded her shopping into the car.

   • 他把我叫進他的辦公室。 [MSC, trad.]
     他把我叫进他的办公室。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā bǎ wǒ jiào jìn tā de bàngōngshì. [Pinyin]

     He called me into his office.

4. to receive; to admit; to recruit
5. to give, to offer (advice)

   • 我給你進一句忠告吧。 [MSC, trad.]
     我给你进一句忠告吧。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒ gěi nǐ jìn yī jù zhōnggào ba. [Pinyin]

     Let me give you a piece of advice.

6. (used with 球 (qiú)) to score a goal
   • 進球／进球 (jìnqiú, “to score a goal”)
   • 他踢進了一個球。 / 他踢进了一个球。  ―  Tā tī jìn le yī ge qiú.  ―  He kicked a goal.
7. to eat; to drink
   • 進食／进食 (jìnshí, “to take a meal”)
   • 進餐／进餐 (jìncān, “to have a meal”)
8. measure word for rows of houses within an old-style residential compound
9. 20th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "advance"

Compounds

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. advance, make progress, enter

Proper noun

進 (hiragana すすむ, rōmaji Susumu)

1. A male given name

Hanja

進 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune–Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Han character

進 (tiến, tấn, tiên)

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