Chinese Character Wiki

晉

jìn

advance

A platform 一 raised on stilts 厶

Components
一 meaning component

一  Meaning component

yī

  

one

厶 meaning component

厶  Meaning component

sī, mǒu

  

private, selfish

厶 meaning component

厶  Meaning component

sī, mǒu

  

private, selfish

一 meaning component

一  Meaning component

yī

  

one

日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

Evolution

晉 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
晉 Bronze script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Bronze script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
晉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
晉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

晋 (晉) 

jìn

advance, increase; promote; to move forward; to promote; to advance

晋 (晉) 

Jìn

surname Jin; the Jin Dynasties (265-420); Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xī​Jìn] (265-316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dōng​Jìn] (317-420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936-946); short name for Shanxi province 山西[Shān​xī]

Most common words with 晉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晋级

promotion

晋

surname Jin

晋升

to promote to a higher position

晋江

Jinjiang county level city in Quanzhou 泉州[Quán​zhōu], Fujian

魏晋

Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tsi[n]-s

tsinH

jìn

Jìn (place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.7733% of movies

1996th most common character in movies

1645th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

晋

Unicode

U+6649

Shuowen

“，進也，日出萬物進。从日，从臸。”


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