HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Body

信 xìn “letter” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 信 means

  1. letter
  2. to trust
  3. mail
  4. to believe
  5. to profess faith in
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • truthful

Measure word 封 fēng · 一封信 yì fēng xìn

How to say 信

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

信 in a sentence

  1. 我今天收到了她的信。

    Wǒ jīntiān shōudào le tā de xìn.

    I got a letter from her today.

    Sentence #804609 from Tatoeba

  2. 她没有回我的信。

    Tā méiyǒu huí wǒ de xìn.

    She didn’t answer my letter.

    Sentence #408474 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这是你的信。

    Zhè shì nǐ de xìn.

    This is your letter.

    Sentence #333502 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 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 信

信 9 strokes

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

Words related to 信

Words with 信

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确信quèxìn · to be convinced

More words: Body & Everyday Things

卡kǎ · card酒jiǔ · alcohol队duì · team气qì · air眼yǎn · eye

FAQs

信 (xìn) means “letter” or “to trust”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it xìn: xìn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 信 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 封 (fēng). For example, one letter is 一封信 (yì fēng xìn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 信 from the suggestions. Typing xin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
信 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older 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.