xìn

(ancient form of 信) to believe in

Evolution

㐰 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
㐰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㐰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

xìn

(ancient form of ) to believe in; to trust, truth, sincerity, confidence, a pledge or token; old variant of [xìn]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+3430

Shuowen

“信,誠也。从人,从言,會意。,古文从言省。訃,古文信。”


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