Given name & surname · Chinese
信
“to trust; to be true”
信 is a surname from Old Chinese. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
信 goes back to Old Chinese 允 (*winʔ), meaning “to trust; to be true.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Chinese 允 (*winʔ, “to trust; to be true”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
信’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 信 has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Шин. In Japanese usage, 信 has a related form in まこと.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Makotoequivalent
- Sonequivalent
- Xinequivalent
- Shunequivalent
- Shinequivalent
- 신equivalent
- Sinequivalent
- Hsinequivalent
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People named 信
- Shin SaburiJapanese actor and film director (1909–1982)
- Bao XinHan dynasty general and warlord (152–192)
- Makoto ŌokaJapanese poet (1931–2017)
- Li XinChinese military general from the state of Qin during the Warring States period250 BC
- Shin KanemaruJapanese politician1914–1996
- Shin OhashiJapanese swimmer (born 2009)
- Makoto KikuchiJapanese field hockey playerborn 1911
- Makoto Azumaflower artistborn 1976
- Makoto TakahashiJapanese voice actor
Characters named 信: Huang Xin (Water Margin character).
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