HSK 6 · Work

晋升 jìnshēng “to be promoted” in Chinese

Traditional 晉升

What 晋升 means

  1. to be promoted
  2. to promote to a higher position

How to say 晋升

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale晋jìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale升shēng1st tone, high and level

晋升 in a sentence

  1. 她晋升了。

    Tā jìnshēng le.

    She’s been promoted.

    Sentence #826096 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 晋升 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晋 (jìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
晋jìnto move forward
  • 亚Asia · yà
  • 日sun · rì
The character 升 (shēng) drawn as one shape
升shēngto ascend; to rise

升 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 晋升

晋 10 strokes · 升 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晋升 (jìnshēng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 晋升 (jìnshēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晋升

Words with 升

升shēng · to rise

More words: Work & Career

奖赏jiǎngshǎng · to reward解雇jiěgù · to dismiss敬业jìngyè · dedication to one’s work精益求精jīngyìqiújīng · to strive for perfection就业jiùyè · employment就职jiùzhí · to take office纪要jìyào · summary决策juécè · to make a policy decision

FAQs

晋升 (jìnshēng) means “to be promoted” or “to promote to a higher position”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jìnshēng: jìn with a 4th tone, then shēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 晋升 is written 晉升. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jinsheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晋升 from the suggestions. Typing jinsheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晋升 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.