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

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
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    不信
    不遜 / 不逊

Etymology 1

Verb

不信

to not trust; to not believe
(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

(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

(Tokyo) ふしん [fùshíń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ɕĩɴ]

Noun

不(ふ)信(しん) • (fushin)

having no confidence in someone or something

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
不	信

Adjective

不信

chữ Hán form of bất tín