进来
jìn lái 4–2
to come in
- Characters
- 2
- 进 · 来
- Syllables
- 2
- jìn lái
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,870
Part of speech: v
Character by character
- 进jìn7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 進advance, make progress, enter
- 来lái7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 來come, coming; return, returning
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
她进来。
Tā jìn lái
She comes in.
进来吧。
Jìn lái ba
Come in.
带他进来。
Dài tā jìn lái
Bring him in.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 进来. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 来láiHSK 1
to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来); ever since (as in 自古以来); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来)
- 起来qǐ laiHSK 1
to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qǐ lái]
- 出来chū láiHSK 1
to come out; to appear; to arise
- 进行jìn xíngHSK 2
to advance; to conduct; underway; in progress; to do; to carry out; to carry on; to execute
- 进jìnHSK 1
to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- 进入jìn rùHSK 2
to enter; to join; to go into
- 回来huí laiHSK 1
to return; to come back
- 下来xià laiHSK 3
to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 来自lái zìHSK 2
to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- 带来dài láiHSK 2
to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- 过来guò láiHSK 2
to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of
- 未来wèi láiHSK 4
future; tomorrow; approaching; coming; pending
- 看来kàn laiHSK 4
apparently; it seems that
- 原来yuán láiHSK 2
original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- 来到lái dàoHSK 1
to arrive; to come
- 越来越yuè lái yuèHSK 2
more and more
- 后来hòu láiHSK 2
afterwards; later; newly arrived
- 本来běn láiHSK 3
original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- 以来yǐ láiHSK 3
since (a previous event)
- 从来cóng láiHSK 3
always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- 进去jìn qùHSK 1
to go in
- 进一步jìn yī bùHSK 3
to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further
- 进展jìn zhǎnHSK 3
to make headway; to make progress
- 进攻jìn gōngHSK 6
to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports)