信任

Chinese

		letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence	to assign; to appoint; office to assign; to appoint; office; responsibility
trad. (信任)		信	任
simp. ^#(信任)		信	任

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xìnrèn

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄖㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³ jam⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sin-yim / sin-ngim

(Meixian, Guangdong): xin⁴ yim⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): séng-êng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sìn-līm / sìn-jīm

(Teochew, Peng'im): sing³ rim⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shin-zen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xìnrèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄖㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìnrèn
  - Wade–Giles: hsin⁴-jên⁴
  - Yale: syìn-rèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinnrenn
  - Palladius: синьжэнь (sinʹžɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: seon³ jam⁶
  - Yale: seun yahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soen³ jam⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sên³ yem⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³ jɐm²²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-yim / sin-ngim
  - Hakka Romanization System: xin im / xin ngim
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ yim⁴ / xin⁴ ngim⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵ im⁵⁵/, /sin⁵⁵ ŋim⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-yim / sin-ngim
  - Hakka Romanization System: xin (r)im / xin ngim
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ yim⁴ / xin⁴ ngim⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵ (j)im⁵⁵/, /sin⁵⁵ ŋim⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: xin⁴ yim⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ɕin⁵³⁻⁵⁵ im⁵³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: séng-êng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³⁻⁵³ ^(Ø-)ŋɛiŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-līm
  - Tâi-lô: sìn-līm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sienlim
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sin²¹⁻⁵³ lim²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lim⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹⁻⁵³ lim³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-jīm
  - Tâi-lô: sìn-jīm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sienjim
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹⁻⁴¹ zim³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin²¹⁻⁵³ d͡zim²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sing³ rim⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sìng jĭm
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ d͡zim³⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵shin-zen
  - MiniDict: shin^去 zen
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin-zen
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³³ zən⁴⁴/

Verb

信任

to trust; to have confidence in
重建信任 ― chóngjiàn xìnrèn ― to rebuild trust

Synonyms

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信
信實 / 信实 (xìnshí)
信據 / 信据 (xìnjù) (literary, believe and accept as evidence)
堅信 / 坚信 (jiānxìn) (to firmly believe)
憑信 / 凭信 (píngxìn)
深信 (shēnxìn) (to firmly believe)
相信 (xiāngxìn)
確信 / 确信 (quèxìn) (to firmly believe)
置信 (zhìxìn) (chiefly used in the negative)

Derived terms

信任感 (xìnrèngǎn)
信任投票 (xìnrèn tóupiào)

Related terms

信賴／信赖 (xìnlài)
依賴／依赖 (yīlài)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (信任):

→ Japanese: 信任(しんにん) (shinnin)
→ Korean: 신임(信任) (sinim)
→ Vietnamese: tín nhiệm (信任)

Others:

→ Bouyei: xinqrenq
→ Zhuang: saenqnyaemh

Japanese

Kanji in this term
信	任
しん Grade: 4	にん Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しんにん [shìńníń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕĩɲ̟ːĩɴ]

Noun

信(しん)任(にん) • (shinnin)

trust, confidence, credence

Verb

信(しん)任(にん)する • (shinnin suru) transitive suru (stem 信(しん)任(にん)し (shinnin shi), past 信(しん)任(にん)した (shinnin shita))

to trust, to confide
- 2022 June 9, 泉健太, quotee, “第208回国会　衆議院　本会議　第32号　令和4年6月9日”, in 国会会議録検索システム‎^[1], 国立国会図書館, retrieved 28 December 2025:
  こうした政策の度重なる混乱を続ける内閣を信任することはできません。
  Kō shita seisaku no tabikasanaru konran o tsuzukeru naikaku o shinnin suru koto wa deki masen.
  We cannot trust a Cabinet that continues to cause such policy confusion.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "信任する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	信任し	しんにんし	shinnin shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	信任し	しんにんし	shinnin shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	信任する	しんにんする	shinnin suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	信任する	しんにんする	shinnin suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	信任すれ	しんにんすれ	shinnin sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	信任せよ¹ 信任しろ²	しんにんせよ¹ しんにんしろ²	shinnin seyo¹ shinnin shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	信任される	しんにんされる	shinnin sareru
Causative	信任させる信任さす	しんにんさせるしんにんさす	shinnin saseru shinnin sasu
Potential	信任できる	しんにんできる	shinnin dekiru
Volitional	信任しよう	しんにんしよう	shinnin shiyō
Negative	信任しない	しんにんしない	shinnin shinai
Negative continuative	信任せず	しんにんせず	shinnin sezu
Formal	信任します	しんにんします	shinnin shimasu
Perfective	信任した	しんにんした	shinnin shita
Conjunctive	信任して	しんにんして	shinnin shite
Hypothetical conditional	信任すれば	しんにんすれば	shinnin sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“信任”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
信	任

Noun

信任 • (sinim) (hangeul 신임)

hanja form^? of 신임 (“trust”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
信	任

Noun

信任

chữ Hán form of tín nhiệm (“trust; confidence”)

Verb

信任

chữ Hán form of tín nhiệm (“to have confidence in”)

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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