信 — trust, believe, faith

しん信 trust

しん

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U+4FE1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #208 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #963 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

trust
believe
faith
message

Readings

On'yomi: しん shin

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しん shin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

信(しん) shin faith 信(しん) じる shinjiru to believe 通(つう) 信(しん) tsuushin communication 自(じ) 信(しん) jishin self-confidence 信(しん) 用(よう) shinyou trust 配(はい) 信(しん) haishin distribution 発(はっ) 信(しん) hasshin transmission 受(じゅ) 信(しん) jushin reception

のぶ nobu

信(のぶ) 長(なが) nobunaga Nobunaga (given name)

Words by frequency and grade

48 words

Each dot is a word containing 信: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 24 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

音信不通四字熟語

sound trust, negative pass through

半信半疑四字熟語

half trust, half doubt

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

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Compound ideograph (会意). A person (亻, from 人) standing by their words (言). Trust and belief come from a person who keeps their word. The character embodies the Confucian virtue of sincerity (信義).

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#9 人 person