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先进

xiān jìn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 先進

先进 (xiān jìn) means "advanced (technology, methods)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 先进 means

1. sophisticated; advanced (technology etc)
2. meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc)

The characters in 先进

• 先xiānbeforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 进jìnto go forward; to advance; to go in

Example sentences

• 台湾生产先进晶片。
  Taiwan manufactures advanced chips.
• 美国的太空科技十分先进。
  Měiguó de tàikōng kējì shífēn xiānjìn.
  America is ahead in space technology.
• 这个国家的军事力量很先进。
  Zhège guójiā de jūnshìlìliang hěn xiānjìn.
  The military power of this country is very advanced.
• 所谓的先进国家经常把拉丁美洲人看成石器时代的原始人。
  Suǒwèi de xiānjìn guójiā jīngcháng bǎ Lādīng Měizhōu rén kànchéng Shíqì Shídài de yuánshǐrén.
  People from the so-called first world look at us Latinos as if we hadn't invented the wheel yet.

Words starting with 先进

• 先进个人xiān jìn gè rén(official accolade) advanced individual; exemplary individual
• 先进先出xiān jìn xiān chū(computing, inventory management etc) first in, first out
• 先进水平xiān jìn shuǐ píngadvanced level
• 先进集体xiān jìn jí tǐ(official accolade) pace-setting team; exemplary group
• 先进武器xiān jìn wǔ qìadvanced weapon

Where 先进 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xián–xiǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiān jìn correctly.
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