进城 (jìn chéng) — to go into town / to enter the city; to move to a big city (to live and work)
Definition
进城 has two main uses: simply 'to go into town / enter the city' (e.g. 明天我和你一起进城), and the broader sense of 'to move to a big city' for work or life (e.g. many rural young people choose 进城打工). It is a verb-object phrase, separable as 进了两次城.
verb
to go into town / to enter the cityto move to a big city (to live and work)
Examples
- 进城。Míng tiān wǒ hé nǐ yì qǐ jìn chéng.Tomorrow I'll go into town with you.
- 。Tā qù nián jìn guò yí cì chéng zhǎo gōng zuò.He went to the city once last year to look for a job.
- 进城。Hěn duō nóng cūn nián qīng rén xuǎn zé jìn chéng dǎ gōng.Many rural young people choose to go to the city for work.
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