Read Edit View history Discussion 㬜 jìn (same as 晉) to advance Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC Bronze Jin 266-420 AD Bronze Jin 266-420 AD Bronze Jin 266-420 AD Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》:“,進也,日出萬物進。从日,从臸。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)