(xìn) - letter, trust, believe, message in Mandarin
xìnTraditional: 信
Translation
letter, trust, believe, message
Word origin
The character 信 (xìn) 'trust, letter, to believe' is an ideographic compound: a person 亻 standing beside words 言, conveying the idea of standing by one's word, hence trust and, by extension, a letter.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 亻 (person) + 言 (speech/words), 'standing by one's word'
Stroke order
信
Examples
封。
He wrote me a letter.
。
I trust you.
。
She believed what he said.
。
I received his letter yesterday.
封寄。
Please post this letter.
信 (xìn) means letter, trust, believe, message. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 信.
Used in
Stories
(1)Grammar articles
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