Chinese word dictionary

进去

jìnqù · to go in

Practice word

Word information

Simplified进去

Traditional進去

Pinyinjìnqù

Part of speech动

HSK 3.02

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

进jìn

to advance, to make progress; to come in, to enter

去qù

to go away, to leave, to depart

How to learn 进去

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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去qù

to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

去年qùnián

last year

出去chūqù

to go out

过去guòqù

(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

过去guò qù

(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

回去huíqù

to return; to go back