jìn
go forward
辶 represents the meaning and 隹 depicts a bird, which is unable to walk backwards.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts][i][n]-s | tsinH | jìn | advance (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.3822% of movies
152nd most common character in movies
81st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9032 |
Shuowen | “進,登也。从辵,閵省聲。” |
Sources
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