Kanji1 / 11
進 kanji
advance, proceed, progress, promote
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シン
Kun readings
すすむすすめる
Words with 進
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —分列行進marching in file
- —デモ行進demonstration parade
- —化学進化chemical evolution
- —勧進相撲fund-raising tournaments (during the Edo period)
- —進捗状況state of progress
- —秒進分歩rapid progress; minute-by-minute progress
- —挙措進退behavior; bearing; demeanor
- —進取果敢enterprising and daring; boldly forward-looking
- —寸進尺退one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose
- —精進潔斎purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat
- —刻苦精進being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
- —進退去就one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it
- —進退問題a question of whether or not someone should resign
- —進退両難being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place
- —推進母体nucleus (of a project proposal, of a social movement, etc.)
- —勇猛精進engage in ascetic practices with dauntless spirit
- —二進一退two steps forward, one step back
- —分岐進化cladogenesis
- —向上進化anagenesis
- —匍匐前進crawling forward (on one's stomach)