信用

Chinese

		letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence	to use
simp. and trad. (信用)		信	用

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìnyòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄩㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³ jung⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sin-yung
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sìn-iōng
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵shin-yon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìnyòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄩㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìnyòng
    • Wade–Giles: hsin⁴-yung⁴
    • Yale: syìn-yùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinnyonq
    • Palladius: синьюн (sinʹjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ jʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon³ jung⁶
    • Yale: seun yuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³ jung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³ yung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³ jʊŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-yung
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin iung
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ yung⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵ i̯uŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-yung
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin (r)iung
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ yung⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵ (j)i̯uŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: sìn-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sien'iong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin²¹⁻⁵³ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ iɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin²¹⁻⁵³ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹⁻⁵³ iɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹⁻⁴¹ iɔŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵shin-yon
    • MiniDict: shin^去 yon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin-hhion
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³³ ɦioŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

信用

1. (law, business, finance) credit; creditworthiness
2. trustworthiness

Synonyms

• (credit; trustworthiness): 信譽／信誉 (xìnyù)

Verb

信用

1. to trust and appoint

Derived terms

• 信用卡 (xìnyòngkǎ)
• 信用合作社 (xìnyòng hézuòshè)
• 信用狀／信用状 (xìnyòngzhuàng)
• 信用等級評定／信用等级评定 (xìnyòng děngjí píngdìng)
• 信用評級／信用评级 (xìnyòng píngjí)
• 信用證／信用证 (xìnyòngzhèng)
• 信用貸款／信用贷款 (xìnyòng dàikuǎn)
• 信用額度／信用额度 (xìnyòng édù)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (信用):

• → Japanese: 信用(しんよう) (shin'yō)
• → Korean: 신용(信用) (sinyong)
• → Vietnamese: tín dụng (信用)

References

• “Entry #4726”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
信	用
しん Grade: 4	よう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しんよー [shìń'yóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩɰ̃jo̞ː]

Noun

信(しん)用(よう) • (shin'yō) 

1. belief, trust, confidence
2. reliance

Verb

信(しん)用(よう)する • (shin'yō suru) suru (stem 信(しん)用(よう)し (shin'yō shi), past 信(しん)用(よう)した (shin'yō shita))

1. to believe, to trust
2. to rely on

Conjugation

Conjugation of "信用する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	信用し	しんようし	shin'yō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	信用し	しんようし	shin'yō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	信用する	しんようする	shin'yō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	信用する	しんようする	shin'yō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	信用すれ	しんようすれ	shin'yō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	信用せよ¹ 信用しろ²	しんようせよ¹ しんようしろ²	shin'yō seyo¹ shin'yō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	信用される	しんようされる	shin'yō sareru
Causative	信用させる 信用さす	しんようさせる しんようさす	shin'yō saseru shin'yō sasu
Potential	信用できる	しんようできる	shin'yō dekiru
Volitional	信用しよう	しんようしよう	shin'yō shiyō
Negative	信用しない	しんようしない	shin'yō shinai
Negative continuative	信用せず	しんようせず	shin'yō sezu
Formal	信用します	しんようします	shin'yō shimasu
Perfective	信用した	しんようした	shin'yō shita
Conjunctive	信用して	しんようして	shin'yō shite
Hypothetical conditional	信用すれば	しんようすれば	shin'yō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Korean

Hanja in this term
信	用

Noun

信用 • (sinyong) (hangeul 신용)

1. Hanja form^? of 신용 (“credit, credibility, confidence, trust”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
信	用

Noun

信用

1. chữ Hán form of tín dụng (“credit”).