HSK 6 · Ideas

威信 wēixìn “prestige” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 威信 means

  1. prestige
  2. credibility
  3. authority
  4. reputation
  5. trust
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • credit with the people

How to say 威信

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale威wēi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale信xìn4th tone, falling

威信 in a sentence

  1. 他的威信日渐衰落。

    Tā de wēixìn rìjiàn shuāiluò.

    His prestige is gradually declining.

    Sentence #1982653 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 威信 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 威 (wēi) with each of its parts in a different colour
威wēipower
  • 戌part of the character
  • 女woman · nǚ
The character 信 (xìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
信xìnletter
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 言speech · yán

Memory aidA person 亻 and their word 言: to trust, and a letter.

How to write 威信

威 9 strokes · 信 9 strokes

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威信 (wēixìn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 威信 (wēixìn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 威信

Words with 威

威胁wēixié · to threaten威风wēifēng · impressive权威quánwēi · authority示威shìwēi · to hold a demonstration威力wēilì · power威望wēiwàng · prestige

Words with 信

信xìn · letter相信xiāngxìn · to believe信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself短信duǎnxìn · text message信息xìnxī · information信封xìnfēng · envelope信心xìnxīn · confidence信任xìnrèn · to trust信号xìnhào · signal

More words: Ideas & Concepts

外界wàijiè · the outside world危机wēijī · crisis威力wēilì · power威望wēiwàng · prestige相差xiāngchà · to differ相辅相成xiāngfǔxiāngchéng · to complement each other陷阱xiànjǐng · trap线索xiànsuǒ · clue

FAQs

威信 (wēixìn) means “prestige” or “credibility”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wēixìn: wēi with a 1st tone, then xìn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 威信 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weixin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 威信 from the suggestions. Typing weixin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
威信 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.