進

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𬿫, 𭗝, 𭞷, 𭢜, 𣛎, 璡, 𬔀, 𰰓, 䗯, 𧾄, 𦻗, 𥳟, 𢶘, 𣝤, 𬣓

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1259, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38943
• Dae Jaweon: page 1749, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3851, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9032

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 進
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 辵 (“walk”) + 隹 (“short-tail bird”). A bird can only walk forward not backward, hence implying "forward". Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslins) : semantic 辵 + abbreviated phonetic 閵 (OC *rins).

Etymology

Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   Let me give you a piece of advice.

6. to score (a goal)

   進球／进球  ―  jìnqiú  ―  to score a goal

   他踢進了一個球。 [MSC, trad.]
   他踢进了一个球。 [MSC, simp.]

   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. Classifier for rows of houses within an old-style residential compound.
9. 20th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "advance" (𝌙)

Synonyms

• (to enter):

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "to advance"): 退 (tuì)

Compounds

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: tiến

Japanese

Shinjitai	進
Kyūjitai	進󠄁 進+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	進󠄃 進+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. advance, make progress, enter

Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• On: じん (jin)
• Kun: すすむ (susumu, 進む, Jōyō); すすめる (susumeru, 進める, Jōyō); のびる (nobiru, 進びる); じょう (jō)
• Nanori: す (su); すす (susu); すすみ (susumi); すすむ (susumu); のぶ (nobu); みち (michi); ゆき (yuki)

Compounds

• 進(しん)化(か) (shinka)
• 進(しん)出(しゅつ) (shinshutsu)
• 昇(しょう)進(しん) (shōshin)

Proper noun

進(すすむ) • (Susumu) 

1. a male given name

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 440860

Korean

Hanja

進 (eumhun 나아갈 진 (naagal jin))

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Hanja

進 (eumhun 선사 신 (seonsa sin))

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Vietnamese

Han character

進: Hán Nôm readings: tiến, Tiến

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