进
jìn HSK1

advance

进 進 jìn
to enter verb
To go or come into; to move from the outside to the inside.

他进了安静的房间。

tā jìn le ān​jìng de fáng​jiān.

He entered the quiet room.

我17岁时进了监狱。

wǒ17 suì shí jìn le jiān​yù.

I went to prison when I was 17.

to advance verb
To move forward or upward; to make progress; opposite of 退 tuì.
[into] particle
Used after a verb to show movement from the outside to the inside.

他们会把我关进监狱。

tā​men huì bǎ wǒ guān jìn jiān​yù.

They'll put me in prison.

他们没有搬进新房子。

tā​men méi​yǒu bān jìn xīn fáng​zi.

They didn't move into a new house.

to eat verb
To eat or drink; to take a meal.

和我共进晚餐吧。

hé wǒ gòng jìn wǎn​cān ba.

Join me for dinner.

to receive verb
To take in; to admit; to receive people or goods.

今天进的虾很少。

jīn​tiān jìn de xiā hěn shǎo.

Very few shrimp came in today.

base noun
(math) The base or radix of a number system.
to submit
To present or offer to a superior; to submit suggestions or tribute.
[section]
(classifier) Used for rows of houses or sections of a traditional courtyard compound.
surname
A Chinese surname
to enter officialdom
To enter government service or hold a public office
scholarly rank
(bound form) A rank in the imperial examination system, as in 进士 jìn​shì

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
81st most common 2130.0 per million
Movie subtitles
152nd most common 1188.6 per million appears in 98% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
525.7 per million appears in 84% of films
Written text
255.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
進
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+8FDB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)