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(xìn) - letter, trust, believe, message in Mandarin

xìn

Traditional: 信

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HSK 3
#843 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

letter, trust, believe, message

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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

Stroke order for 信

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Examples

。

He wrote me a letter.

。

I trust you.

。

She believed what he said.

。

I received his letter yesterday.

。

Please post this letter.

信 (xìn) means letter, trust, believe, message. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

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Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 信.

相信xiāng xìnto believe, to trust信息xìn xīinformation, message, news信任xìn rèntrust, confidence in someone不敢相信bù gǎn xiāng xìncannot believe, unable to believe信号xìn hàosignal, sign难以置信nán yǐ zhì xìnunbelievable, hard to believe, incredible

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This word is taught in chapter 11, lesson 4: 信, 可怜, 教 and 7 more words.