進

See also 进

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 隹 (“omission of 閵”)

Han character

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

1. advance, make progress, enter

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

進 (simplified 进, jyutping zeon3, Yale jeun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

進 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin), じん (jin)
• Kun: すすむ (susumu), すすめる (susumeru)

• Compounds:
  • 進化 (しんか, shinka)
  • 進出 (しんしゅつ, shinshutsu)
  • 昇進 (しょうしん, shōshin)

Proper noun

進 (hiragana すすむ, romaji Susumu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

進 (simplified 进, pinyin jìn (jin4), Wade-Giles chin⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

進 (tiến, tấn)