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威信

wēi xìn

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

威信 (Wēi xìn) means "Weixin county in Zhaotong 通, Yunnan; prestige; reputation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 威信 means

1. prestige
2. reputation
3. trust
4. credit with the people

Other readings

威信 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Wēi xìnsee {威信县|Wēi xìn Xiàn}

The characters in 威信

• 威wēipower; might; prestige
• 信xìnletter; mail; to trust

Example sentences

• 他的威信日渐衰落。
  His prestige is fading.

Words starting with 威信

• 威信扫地wēi xìn sǎo dìto lose every scrap of reputation
• 威信县Wēi xìn XiànWeixin, a county in Zhaotong City 昭通市

Sounds the same

Read wēi xìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 微信Weixin or WeChat (mobile text and voice messaging service developed by Tencent 腾讯

Where 威信 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wéi–wěi (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 wēi xìn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.