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晋升

jìn shēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 晉升

晋升 (jìn shēng) means "to promote to a higher position". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 晋升 means

1. to promote to a higher position

The characters in 晋升

• 晋jìnto move forward; to promote; to advance
• 升shēngto ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter

Example sentences

• 她晋升了。
  Tā jìnshēng le.
  She was promoted.
• 他晋升为大佐。
  Tā jìnshēng wèi dà zuǒ.
  He advanced to colonel.
• 在一颗棋子上放置另一颗相同颜色的棋子，可以表示这颗棋子晋升为王。
  The promotion of a piece to a king is indicated by setting on it another piece of the same color.
• 我和我别的同事做同样的事情，但是得到了能在很短时间内得到晋升的承诺。
  Wǒ hé wǒ biéde tóngshì zuò tóngyàng de shìqing, dànshì dédào le néng zài hěn duǎnshíjiān nèi dédào jìnshēng de chéngnuò.
  My colleague and I do the same job, but she was promised a promotion very soon.

Sounds the same

Read jìn shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 噤声to keep silent

Where 晋升 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jìn (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 jìn shēng correctly.
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