What 进 means
It marks inward or forward movement. Ancient bone-divination inscriptions show an ancestor of 進. Its bird-and-foot form is read as a bird stepping forward; some early uses mean presenting offerings. Inscriptions on Western Zhou bronze vessels add 辵, a movement component; 進 also means recommending people or presenting laborers. Texts on bamboo strips from Chu use it for advancing.
Neutral Chinese writing; script form signals spelling convention, not attitude.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings“快进来吧” from inside
Come toward the speaker.
“你先进去” from outside
Go away from the speaker.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 进 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 进
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8FDB, then Alt+X to get 进.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-8fdb”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8fdb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
进CSS
\8FDBPinyin input
Type jin (Mandarin sounds in Latin letters) in a Pinyin input method and select 进; traditional output gives 進.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
进
HTML hex
进
CSS content
content: "\8FDB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%BF%9B
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.