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Mythic Mandarin

相信 (xiāng xìn): meaning and stroke order

相信 (xiāng xìn) means to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true.

相信

Simplified
相信
Traditional
相信 (same form)
Pinyin
xiāng xìn

Stroke order of 相信

相

  • Xiāng surname Xiang
  • xiāng each other; one another
  • xiàng appearance; portrait
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

信

  • xìn letter; mail
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 相信

  1. xiāng xìn
    • to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true

Radicals of the characters

相
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 目 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.

相信 in our stories

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  • 人们相信，只有世界太平、有伟大的人出生的时候，麒麟才会出现。

    rénmen xiāngxìn zhǐyǒu shìjiè tàipíng yǒu wěidà de rén chūshēng de shíhou qílín cái huì chūxiàn

    People believed that the qilin appeared only when the world was at peace and a great person was born.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

  • 陆远不相信有鬼，决定自己去看个明白。

    Lù Yuǎn bù xiāngxìn yǒu guǐ juédìng zìjǐ qù kàn gè míngbai

    Lu Yuan didn't believe in ghosts and decided to go and find out for himself.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

  • 这个故事叫《乌盆记》，后来被编成了京剧。人们爱听它，不只是因为有鬼，更因为在那个年代，连一个冤魂都相信，只要找到包青天，公道就一定会来。

    zhè gè gùshi jiào Wūpén Jì hòulái bèi biān chéng le jīngjù rénmen ài tīng tā bù zhǐshì yīnwèi yǒu guǐ gèng yīnwèi zài nà gè niándài lián yí gè yuānhún dōu xiāngxìn zhǐyào zhǎodào Bāo Qīngtiān gōngdao jiù yídìng huì lái

    The story is called The Black Basin and was later made into a Beijing opera. People love it not just for the ghost, but because in those days even a wronged spirit believed that if you could reach Bao the Upright, justice would surely come.

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 相信

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).