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信仰

xìn yǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

信仰 (xìn yǎng) means "to believe in (a religion); firm belief; conviction". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 信仰 means

1. to believe in (a religion)
2. firm belief
3. conviction

The characters in 信仰

• 信xìnletter; mail; to trust
• 仰yǎngto face upward; to look up; to admire

Example sentences

• 你信仰上帝幺？
  Do you believe in God?
• 我们信仰佛教。
  We believe in Buddhism.
• 我信仰耶稣基督。
  Wǒ xìnyǎng Yēsū Jīdū.
  I believe in Jesus Christ.
• 一个没有信仰的人是可怕的。
  Yī gè méiyǒu xìnyǎng de rén shì kěpà de.
  A person without faith is frightening.
• 巴哈伊信仰是个很棒的宗教。
  The Baha'i Faith is a very cool religion.
• 法律必须被信仰，否则形同虚设。
  Fǎlǜ bìxū bèi xìnyǎng, fǒuzé xíngtóngxūshè.
  One must have conviction in law, or its existence will be superficial only.

Words starting with 信仰

• 信仰者xìn yǎng zhěbeliever

Where 信仰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xīn–xìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìn yǎng correctly.
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