进
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to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辵 +4
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 進
- Common rank
- #288
- Unicode
- U+8FDB
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
advance · Heisig RSH #1360
井 well + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 进
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 进来 | to come in | |
| 进去 | to go in | |
| 请进 | "please come in" | |
| 大进大出 | large-scale import and export | |
| 不是一家人不进一家门 | people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom); marriages are predes… | |
| 上进心 | ambition; desire for self-improvement | |
| 不长进 | not improving; backward; below par | |
| 进行性 | progressive; gradual | |
| 进水口 | water inlet | |
| 原发性进行性失语 | primary progressive aphasia (PPA), speech disorder (sometimes related to dementia) | |
| 中国进出口银行 | The Export-Import Bank of China (state-owned bank) | |
| 里出外进 | uneven; in disorder; everything sticking out | |
| 进出口 | importation and exportation; import-export; access point; opening that serves as an entran… | |
| 进行性失语 | progressive aphasia; gradual loss of speech | |
| 进水 | to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water | |
| 前进区 | Qianjin, a district of Jiamusi City 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 进学 | to advance one's learning; to enter the prefecture school under the imperial examination s… | |
| 进动 | precession (physics) | |
| 进化 | to evolve (biologically, technologically etc); evolution | |
| 行进 | to advance; forward motion |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 井 — compare how they read.