進身之階 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 进身之阶 jìnshēnzhījiē ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕㄣ ㄓ ㄐㄧㄝ stepping-stone to greater power or higher rank Character by character 進(jìn)go forward 身(shēn)body 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 階(jiē)rank or step A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0