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Which しんこう is the one Yotsuba-chan meant when she said 「しゅっぱつしんこ〜」 in the
manga excerpt below? WWWJDIC lists so many two-kanji words that read as しんこう,
and even after eliminating totally irrelevant ones there are still a few
plausible choices:

> 新興 【しんこう】 (n,adj-no) rising; developing; emergent;  
>  進行 【しんこう】 (n,vs) advance; progress;  
>  進攻 【しんこう】 (n,vs) attack; drive; advance; invasion;  
>  進航 【しんこう】 (n,vs) sailing on

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PDvmw.jpg)

(From manga 「よつばと！」, 4th volume, page 30)
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しゅっぱつしんこ〜, what is Yotsuba-chan saying?
Was this the one where they went fishing? That was a fun story. I'm starting
to wish I hadn't eBay'd my Yotsuba books last year.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure 出発 **進行** is what you want. There's even [a Wikipedia
page for
出発進行](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%BA%E7%99%BA%E9%80%B2%E8%A1%8C) which
says that this phrase is in the lingo book for train operators as part of the
safety procedure of [pointing and
calling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling)
([指差喚呼](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8C%87%E5%B7%AE%E5%96%9A%E5%91%BC)).
(The phrase basically means permission to advance has been granted.)
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