进
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
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #288 U+8FDB
How 进 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 井 (phonetic, jǐng)
How to remember it
advance · Heisig RSH #1360
井 well + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 井
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 井 (jǐng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 井 sound component | jǐng | well, mine shaft, pit |
| 讲 | jiǎng | talk, speech, lecture; to speak, to explain |
| 耕 | gēng | to plow, to cultivate |
| 肼 | jǐng | hydrazine |
Words containing 进
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大进大出 | dà jìn dà chū | large-scale import and export |
| 不是一家人不进一家门 | bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén | people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom); marriages are predes… |
| 上进心 | shàng jìn xīn | ambition; desire for self-improvement |
| 不长进 | bù zhǎng jìn | not improving; backward; below par |
| 进行性 | jìn xíng xìng | progressive; gradual |
| 进水口 | jìn shuǐ kǒu | water inlet |
| 原发性进行性失语 | yuán fā xìng jìn xíng xìng shī yǔ | primary progressive aphasia (PPA), speech disorder (sometimes related to dementia) |
| 中国进出口银行 | Zhōng guó Jìn chū kǒu Yín háng | The Export-Import Bank of China (state-owned bank) |
| 里出外进 | lǐ chū wài jìn | uneven; in disorder; everything sticking out |
| 进出口 | jìn chū kǒu | importation and exportation; import-export; access point; opening that serves as an entran… |
| 进行性失语 | jìn xíng xìng shī yǔ | progressive aphasia; gradual loss of speech |
| 进水 | jìn shuǐ | to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water |
| 前进区 | Qián jìn Qū | Qianjin, a district of Jiamusi City 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 进学 | jìn xué | to advance one's learning; to enter the prefecture school under the imperial examination s… |
| 进动 | jìn dòng | precession (physics) |
| 进化 | jìn huà | to evolve (biologically, technologically etc); evolution |
| 行进 | xíng jìn | to advance; forward motion |
| 进行 | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out… |
| 上进 | shàng jìn | to make progress; to do better; fig. ambitious to improve oneself; to move forwards |
| 脑子进水 | nǎo zi jìn shuǐ | to have lost one's mind; crazy; soft in the head |