进

jìn = ji + (e)n4

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

进 = 井 + 辶 : Joan of Arc fell into a well after she entered the encampment's bathroom, but luckily one of her gladiator sandals got stuck on one toilet, so now she can use the string to climb out of the well.

进 character breakdown

进
- 井
  - 丨
  - 丿
  - 二
    - 一
- 辶

jǐng = ji + (e)ng3

a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

井 = 二 + 丿 + 丨 : Joan of Arc (ji) is digging a well (井) inside the engine ((e)ng3). At first she was doing it by hand, but then she hooked up a capacitor (二) to a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨), which dig for her using the electrical energy.

chuò = chu + o4

to walk (side part of split character)

Chantal Chicken tries out her new gladiator sandals in the observatory's bathroom.

Characters with 进 as component

jìn = ji + (e)n4

jade-like stone

Words with 进

to recommend / to introduce (from outside)

to promote / to enhance / to further / to advance (a cause etc)

to advance bravely / to endeavor

decimal

Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies

Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT, from 1926) / Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center (from 1943)

to inhale / to breathe in

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, R&D center in Pasadena, California

jet propulsion

primary progressive aphasia (PPA), speech disorder (sometimes related to dementia)

decimal calculation

decimal system

large-scale import and export

decimal system

Space Shuttle Endeavor

,

study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind

embedded / embedding

,

the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

to get through by luck / to be promoted by a fluke

(slang) to have served several sentences / recidivist / old lag

Sentences with 进

wài

miàn

yǒu

yi̅

ya̅o

hóu

chuǎng

jìn

go̅ng

lái

There's a demon monkey barging into the palace.