不信

Chinese

		not; no	letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
simp. and trad. (不信)		不	信

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùxìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ seon³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùxìn [Phonetic: búxìn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsìn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-hsin⁴
    • Yale: bù-syìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushinn
    • Palladius: бусинь (businʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bat¹ seon³
    • Yale: bāt seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ sɵn³³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 不信 不遜／不逊

Etymology 1

Verb

不信

1. to not trust; to not believe
2. (literary) to not have credit; to be untrustworthy

Derived terms

• 無徵不信／无征不信
• 美言不信
• 言而不信 (yán'érbùxìn)
• 賞罰不信／赏罚不信

 

Etymology 2

Translation of Sanskrit अश्रद्ध्य (aśraddhya, “unbelief”) or Pali asaddha (“not believing”). The Tibetan equivalent is མ་དད་པ (ma dad pa).

Noun

不信

1. (Buddhism) unbelief or non-faith; inability of a person to generate tacit belief or confidence in a teacher and the doctrines that is necessary to undertake practice in earnest

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (不信):

• → Japanese: 不信(ふしん) (fushin)
• → Korean: 불신(不信) (bulsin)
• → Vietnamese: bất tín (不信)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	信
ふ Grade: 4	しん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ɕĩɴ]

Noun

不(ふ)信(しん) • (fushin) 

1. having no confidence in someone or something

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
不	信

Adjective

不信

1. chữ Hán form of bất tín.