信 xìn in a sentence
Letter (information - believe - trust - evidence)
信 (xìn) means Letter (information - believe - trust - evidence). Below are 24 of the 97 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
信 是奶奶寄来的。
xìn shì nǎinai jì lái de / dì.
It was from my grandmother.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
上个月，我收到了一封 信 。
shànggèyuè, wǒ shōudào le / liǎo / liào yī fēng xìn.
Last month I received a letter.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
信 上的字写得很大，很认真。
xìn shàng de / dì zì xiě dehěn dà, hěn rènzhēn.
The characters on the page were large and carefully formed.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
现在几乎没有人写 信 了，所以我很吃惊。
xiànzài jīhū méiyǒu rén xiěxìn le / liǎo / liào, suǒyǐ wǒ hěn chījīng.
Almost nobody writes letters now, so I was surprised.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我当时非常生气，直接把她的微 信 删了。
wǒ dāngshí fēicháng shēngqì, zhíjiē bǎ tā de / dì wēi xìn shān le / liǎo / liào.
I was furious and deleted her from WeChat there and then.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我把那封 信 放在了书桌上，每天都能看见。
wǒ bǎ nà / nèi fēng xìn fàng zài le / liǎo / liào shū zhuō shàng, měitiān dōu néng kànjiàn.
I put the letter on my desk where I see it every day.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我给她打电话的时候，她说这封 信 她写了两次。
wǒ gěi tā dǎdiànhuà de / dì shíhou, tā shuō zhè / zhèi fēng xìn tā xiěle liǎngcì.
When I rang her, she said she'd written the letter twice.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
最后我把它打开了，里面全是我上大学时的照片和 信 。
zuìhòu wǒ bǎ tā dǎkāile, lǐmiàn quán shì wǒ shàng dàxué shí de / dì zhàopiàn hé xìn.
In the end I opened it: inside were all my photographs and letters from university.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
那一刻我明白了，其实我一直都可以，只是不相 信 自己。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ míngbaile, qíshí wǒ yìzhí dōu kěyǐ, zhǐshì bù xiāngxìn zìjǐ.
In that moment I understood that I'd always been able to — I just hadn't believed it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
她在 信 里问我：吃得好不好？睡得好不好？工作累不累？
tā zài xìn lǐ wèn wǒ: chī dé / děi / de hǎo / hào bùhǎo? shuì dé / děi / de hǎo / hào bùhǎo? gōngzuò lèi / léi / lěi bù lèi / léi / lěi?
She asked in it: was I eating well, sleeping well, was work tiring?
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
From the travel phrasebook
加个微 信 吧。
Jiā ge Wēixìn ba.
Let's add each other on WeChat.
Travel phrasebook · Meetings and introductions
From the grammar library
信 appears in 97 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 信
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Questions about 信
How is 信 used in a sentence?
This page shows 97 sentences using 信 (xìn, "Letter (information - believe - trust - evidence)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 信 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 信 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 信?
The dictionary page for 信 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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