进 進
进進 in English
- 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
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 進, the traditional character: 进 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一个陌生人进了大楼。
A stranger came into the building.
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世界上有10种人：懂二进制和不懂二进制的人。
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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世界上有10种人：懂二进制的人和不懂二进制的人。
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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人生就像骑单车一样，要保持平衡就得不停地前进。
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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今天的激进也许是明天的老生常谈。
What's radical today may be cliché tomorrow.