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晉
简 晋 · 繁 晉Mandarin · pinyin jìn#
Meanings · jìn
- to move forward
- to promote
- to advance
Mandarin · pinyin Jìn#
Meanings · Jìn
- surname Jin
- the Jin Dynasties (265–420)
- Western Jin 西晉 Xī Jìn (265–316), Eastern Jin 東晉 Dōng Jìn (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946)
- short name for Shanxi 山西 Shān xī
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- to advance; to increase
- to promote
- (～國) Chinese feudal state of Jin (11th century BCE–376 BCE), a state of the Zhou Dynasty in northern China
- (～朝) Chinese Jin dynasty (266–420)
- 35th hexagram of the I Ching (䷢)
- (alt-of, alternative, name) Alternative name for 山西 (Shānxī, “Shanxi”).
- (～語) Jin (a variety of Chinese spoken in and around Shanxi)
- a surname
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