Chinese symbol for “promote”
促进
cù jìn
Traditional: 促進
to promote (an idea or cause); to advance; boost
The closest CC-CEDICT match for promote is 促进 (cù jìn), defined as: to promote (an idea or cause); to advance; boost.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “promote”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 提升 | tí shēng | to promote (to a higher-ranking position); to lift; to hoist |
| 提倡 | tí chàng | to promote; to advocate |
| 增进 (增進) | zēng jìn | to promote; to enhance |
| 推动 (推動) | tuī dòng | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to |
| 起用 | qǐ yòng | to promote; to reinstate (in a position or job) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 促进.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 促使 | cù shǐ | to prompt; to induce; to spur |
| 促成 | cù chéng | to facilitate; to help bring about |
| 促销 (促銷) | cù xiāo | to promote sales |
| 敦促 | dūn cù | to press; to urge |
| 督促 | dū cù | to supervise and urge completion of a task; to urge on |
| 进行 (進行) | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) |
| 进入 (進入) | jìn rù | to enter; to go into |
| 进一步 (進一步) | jìn yī bù | to go a step further; (develop, understand, improve etc) more; further |
See also: Japanese symbol for “promote”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.