篤信

Chinese

		serious (illness); sincere; true	letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
trad. (篤信)		篤	信
simp. (笃信)		笃	信
anagram		信篤／信笃

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dǔxìn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): duk¹ seon³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tok-sìn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dǔxìn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dǔsìn
  - Wade–Giles: tu³-hsin⁴
  - Yale: dǔ-syìn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duushinn
  - Palladius: дусинь (dusinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: duk¹ seon³
  - Yale: dūk seun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁷ soen³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dug¹ sên³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚⁵ sɵn³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tok-sìn
  - Tâi-lô: tok-sìn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doksixn
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ sin²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ sin⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔk̚³²⁻⁵ sin²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ sin¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ sin²¹/

Verb

篤信

to believe firmly; to sincerely believe in

Derived terms

篤信好古 / 笃信好古 (dǔxìnhàogǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
篤	信
とく Grade: S	しん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とくしん [tòkúshíń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [to̞kɯ̟ɕĩɴ]

Noun

篤(とく)信(しん) • (tokushin) ^{←とくしん (tokusin)^?}

sincere belief, devotion
Synonyms: 信仰 (shinkō), 帰依 (kie)

Verb

篤(とく)信(しん)する • (tokushin suru) ^{←とくしん (tokusin)^?}suru (stem 篤(とく)信(しん)し (tokushin shi), past 篤(とく)信(しん)した (tokushin shita))

to sincerely believe, to hold a sincere belief
- 1978 January 15, Kōda Rohan, 平将門 [Taira no Masakado]‎^[1], Tokyo, published 1978:
  
  [Historical kana usage]
  将(まさ)門(かど)の女(むすめ)で地(ぢ)蔵(ざう)尼(に)といふのは、地(ぢ)蔵(ざう)菩(ぼ)薩(さつ)を篤(とく)信(しん)したと、元(げん)亨(かう)釈(しやく)書(しよ)に見(み)えてゐる。
  Masakado no musume de Dizau-ni to ifu no fa, Dizau Bosatu wo tokusin sita to, Genkau Syakusyo ni miete wiru.
  As Masakado called his daughter Jizō-ni, it can be seen in the Genkō Shakusho that he held a sincere belief in the boddhisattva Kṣitigarbha.
  
  [Modern kana usage]
  将(まさ)門(かど)の女(むすめ)で地(じ)蔵(ぞう)尼(に)というのは、地(じ)蔵(ぞう)菩(ぼ)薩(さつ)を篤(とく)信(しん)したと、元(げん)亨(こう)釈(しゃく)書(しょ)に見(み)えている。
  Masakado no musume de Jizō-ni to iu no wa, Jizō Bosatsu o tokushin shita to, Genkō Shakusho ni miete iru.
  As Masakado called his daughter Jizō-ni, it can be seen in the Genkō Shakusho that he held a sincere belief in the boddhisattva Kṣitigarbha.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "篤信する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	篤信し	とくしんし	tokushin shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	篤信し	とくしんし	tokushin shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	篤信する	とくしんする	tokushin suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	篤信する	とくしんする	tokushin suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	篤信すれ	とくしんすれ	tokushin sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	篤信せよ¹ 篤信しろ²	とくしんせよ¹ とくしんしろ²	tokushin seyo¹ tokushin shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	篤信される	とくしんされる	tokushin sareru
Causative	篤信させる篤信さす	とくしんさせるとくしんさす	tokushin saseru tokushin sasu
Potential	篤信できる	とくしんできる	tokushin dekiru
Volitional	篤信しよう	とくしんしよう	tokushin shiyō
Negative	篤信しない	とくしんしない	tokushin shinai
Negative continuative	篤信せず	とくしんせず	tokushin sezu
Formal	篤信します	とくしんします	tokushin shimasu
Perfective	篤信した	とくしんした	tokushin shita
Conjunctive	篤信して	とくしんして	tokushin shite
Hypothetical conditional	篤信すれば	とくしんすれば	tokushin sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

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