信
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letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 人 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 信
- Common rank
- #192
- Unicode
- U+4FE1
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Formation & memory
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How 信 is formed
How to remember it
faith · Heisig RSH #814
人 person + words
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 信
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国电信 | China Telecom (Chinese company providing mobile phone service) | |
| 自信心 | self-confidence | |
| 风信子 | hyacinth (flower) | |
| 信子 | variant of 芯子[xin4 zi5] | |
| 信义区 | Xinyi or Hsinyi District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan; Hsinyi District o… | |
| 公信力 | public trust; credibility | |
| 信口开合 | variant of 信口開河|信口开河[xin4 kou3 kai1 he2] | |
| 公开信 | open letter | |
| 无信义 | in bad faith; false; perfidious | |
| 信心 | confidence; faith (in sb or sth); CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 阳信县 | Yangxin, a county in Binzhou City 濱州市|滨州市[Bin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 信阳市 | Xinyang, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3] | |
| 自信 | to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence | |
| 信州区 | Xinzhou, a district of Shangrao City 上饒市|上饶市[Shang4 rao2 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 家信 | letter to or from home or family | |
| 海信 | Hisense (brand) | |
| 信口开河 | to speak without thinking (idiom); to blurt sth out | |
| 信手 | casually; in passing | |
| 电信 | telecommunications | |
| 发信 | to post a letter |