Chinese Character Wiki
信

xìn

trust

Conveys trusting (信) what a person (人) says (言). 人 is also a sound component.

Components
亻 sound,meaning component

亻  Sound Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

Evolution

信 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
信 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
信 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
信 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

信  

xìn

trust, believe; letter; mail; CL:封[fēng]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random

Most common words with 信
Freq.
Word
Meaning

相信

to believe

信

letter

信息

news

信任

to trust

信号

signal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ni[ŋ]-s

sinH

xìn

truthful


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 97.8376% of movies

147th most common character in movies

176th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FE1

Shuowen

“信，誠也。从人，从言，會意。，古文从言省。訃，古文信。”


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