漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
信: faith, truth
Also: fidelity, trust
JLPT N39 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 言 is drawn in
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 信号しんごうtraffic lights, signal
- 信仰しんこう(religious) faith
- 自信じしんself-confidence
- 不信ふしんdistrust
- 私信ししんprivate message
- 信用するしんようするbelieve
- 信頼するしんらいするtrust
- 確信するかくしんするbecome convinced
- 返信するへんしんするreply
- 受信するじゅしんするreceive (e.g. radio)
- 通信するつうしんするcorrespond
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 (sound) + 言 words (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 信 (rev. 93440439), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A person (亻) + words (言) = a person standing firmly behind their words; the very heart of trust, belief, and honesty.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side信 faith · 亻
vs計 plot · 十In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xìn
Same form: 信 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 信 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 信 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xìn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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