| 晋 |
Jìn zhōu | Jinzhou county-level city in Hebei / Jin Prefecture, established under the Northern Wei dynasty, centered on present-day Linfen 临汾市 in Shanxi |
| 晋 |
Jìn | surname Jin / the Jin Dynasties (265-420) / Western Jin 西晋 (265-316), Eastern Jin 东晋 (317-420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936-946) / short name for Shanxi province 山西 |
| 晋 |
jìn | to move forward / to promote / to advance |
| 州 |
zhōu | prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) |