"善信" meaning in Chinese

See 善信 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʂän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siːn²² sɵn³³/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 善信
  1. (Buddhism and Taoism, chiefly Overseas Chinese, especially Southeast Asia Cantonese) short for 善男信女 (shànnán xìnnǚ, “devout follower”) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: 善男信女 (extra: shànnán xìnnǚ, “devout follower”)
    Sense id: en-善信-zh-noun-BhkLMUQv Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese, Southeast Asian Chinese, Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 61 19 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 70 6 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 6 24

Verb

IPA: /ʂän⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siːn²² sɵn³³/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 善信
  1. (literary) to be good at keeping promise Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-善信-zh-verb-vvQE8zmJ
  2. (literary) to be devoutly religious; to be pious Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-善信-zh-verb-j5EGFX7a
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      "zh_pron": "shànxìn"
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      "zh_pron": "ㄕㄢˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ"
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    },
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        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
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      "zh_pron": "shannshinn"
    },
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        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (ffdbfc3 and b9346a0). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.