漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
進: advance, proceed
Also: progress, promote
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 隹 is drawn in
11 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 進行するしんこうするadvance [v.i.]
- 進学するしんがくするadvance to a higher school
- 進歩するしんぽするprogress [v.i]
- 進化するしんかするevolve [v.i.]
- 前進するぜんしんするadvance [v.i.]
- 促進するそくしんするpromote, advance, help [v.t.]
- 昇進するしょうしんするbe promoted
- 進路しんろcourse, route
- 先進国せんしんこくdeveloped country
すすむsusumu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 進むすすむprogress, advance [v.i.]
すすめるsusumeru · kun'yomi
- 進めるすすめるadvance [v.t.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)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): semantic 辵 + abbreviated phonetic 閵.
Source: Wiktionary, 進 (rev. 92201942), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bird (隹) + movement radical = imagine a flock of birds flying forward in a straight, determined line. To move toward a goal.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side進 advance · ⻌
vs准 quasi- · 冫In ChineseSimplified 进 · traditional, as in Japanese · jìn
Japan keeps the traditional form 進; mainland China simplifies it to 进.
- Simplified
- 进 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 進 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jìn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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