HSK 6 · Ideas

信仰 xìnyǎng “belief” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 信仰 means

  1. belief
  2. faith
  3. to believe in
  4. to believe in (a religion)
  5. firm belief
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • conviction

How to say 信仰

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale仰yǎng3rd tone, dipping

信仰 in a sentence

  1. 从那时起，他的信仰开始摇动了。

    Cóng nàshí qǐ, tā de xìnyǎng kāishǐ yáodòng le.

    From then on, his faith began to waver.

    Sentence #2042161 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 法律必须被信仰，否则形同虚设。

    Fǎlǜ bìxū bèi xìnyǎng, fǒuzé xíngtóngxūshè.

    The law must be believed in, or it exists in name only.

    Sentence #2165984 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 信仰 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 仰 (yǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
仰yǎngto face upward
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 卬lofty · áng

How to write 信仰

信 9 strokes · 仰 6 strokes

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

Words related to 信仰

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

Words with 仰

瞻仰zhānyǎng · to look up to with reverence

More words: Ideas & Concepts

系列xìliè · series形态xíngtài · form信念xìnniàn · belief心血xīnxuè · painstaking effort修养xiūyǎng · self-cultivation雪上加霜xuěshàngjiāshuāng · one misfortune after another (lit. frost on top of snow)循环xúnhuán · cycle须知xūzhī · notice

FAQs

信仰 (xìnyǎng) means “belief” or “faith”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xìnyǎng: xìn with a 4th tone, then yǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 信仰 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xinyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 信仰 from the suggestions. Typing xinyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
信仰 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.