信
Meanings
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- 1.letter
- 2.mail
- 3.CL:封[fēng]
- 4.to trust
- 5.to believe
- 6.to profess faith in
- 7.truthful
- 8.confidence
- 9.trust
- 10.at will
- 11.at random
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Wiktionary
- 1.true; accurate; verifiable
- 2.truly; indeed
- 3.trustworthy
- 4.to believe; to trust in something
- 5.to believe in (a faith); to be religious in
- 6.trust; confidence; faith
- 7.at will
- 8.letter (written communication) (Classifier: 封 m c mn)
- 9.message; information; news
- 10.evidence
- 11.courier; messenger
- 12.a surname, Xin
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljins): phonetic 人 (OC *njin) + semantic 言 (“words”). Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound. Schuessler (2007) reconstructs the Old Chinese minimally as *sin and suggests possible derivation from 允 (OC *winʔ, “to trust; to be true”). Alternatively, Sagart and Baxter (2012) reconstruct *s-niŋ-s (*s-ni[ŋ]-s in Baxter and Sagart, 2014) and suggest a derivation from 仁 (OC *niŋ, “kind”) with the prefix *s-, probably used to increase its valency.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
谁会信呢？
Who's going to believe that?
謹待復信。
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
我信过你。
I believed you.
信寫完了。
The letter was finished.
你真信吗？
Do you actually believe that?
你在寫信嗎?
Are you writing a letter?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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