HSK 4 · Technology

信息 xìnxī “information” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 信息 means

  1. information
  2. news
  3. message

How to say 信息

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale信xìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale息xī1st tone, high and level

信息 in a sentence

  1. 我想要更详细的信息。

    Wǒ xiǎngyào gèng xiángxì de xìnxī.

    I’d like more detailed information.

    Sentence #1944850 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 抱歉，我刚才在吃饭，没有看到信息。

    Bàoqiàn, wǒ gāngcái zài chīfàn, méiyǒu kàndào xìnxī.

    Sorry, I was eating just now and didn’t see your message.

    Sentence #1394998 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他是在网上发现这个信息的。

    Tā shì zài wǎngshàng fāxiàn zhè ge xìnxī de.

    He found out this information online.

    Sentence #844689 from Tatoeba

How 信息 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.

The character 息 (xī) with each of its parts in a different colour
息xībreath
  • 自self · zì
  • 心heart · xīn

How to write 信息

信 9 strokes · 息 10 strokes

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

Words related to 信息

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信封xìnfēng · envelope信心xìnxīn · confidence信任xìnrèn · to trust信号xìnhào · signal确信quèxìn · to be convinced

Words with 息

休息xiūxi · to rest消息xiāoxi · news利息lìxī · interest (on a loan)作息zuòxī · work and rest出息chūxi · promise川流不息chuānliúbùxī · flowing in an endless stream (of people or traffic)

More words: Technology & Media

短信duǎnxìn · text message广告guǎnggào · advertisement互联网hùliánwǎng · the internet技术jìshù · technology密码mìmǎ · cipher网站wǎngzhàn · website消息xiāoxi · news占线zhànxiàn · busy (telephone line)

FAQs

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