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Mythic Mandarin

听信 (tīng xìn): meaning and stroke order

听信 (tīng xìn) means to listen to information, to get the news, to believe what one hears.

听信

Simplified
听信
Traditional
聽信
Pinyin
tīng xìn

Stroke order of 听信

听

  • yǐn smile (archaic)
  • tīng to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 聽

Stroke by stroke

信

  • xìn letter; mail
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 听信

  1. tīng xìn Traditional 聽信
    • to listen to information
    • to get the news
    • to believe what one hears

Radicals of the characters

听
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 7 strokes · 口 on the left, 斤 on the right
信
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 言 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

听信 in our stories

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  • 赵王听信了谣言，决定让赵括代替廉颇。

    Zhào Wáng tīngxìn le yáoyán juédìng ràng Zhào Kuò dàitì Lián Pō

    The King of Zhao believed the rumour and decided to have Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 听信

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).