信奉

信奉

Chinese

		letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence	to receive (from superior); to offer; to revere
simp. and trad. (信奉)		信	奉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìnfèng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄈㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³ fung⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sin-fung
• Min Nan (POJ): sìn-hǒng / sìn-hōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xìnfèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄈㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinnfenq
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon³ fung⁶
    • Yale: seun fuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³ fung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³ fung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³ fʊŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-fung
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin fung
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ fung⁴
    • IPA: /ɕin⁵⁵ fuŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-hǒng
    • Tâi-lô: sìn-hǒng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-hōng
    • Tâi-lô: sìn-hōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sienhong
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕin¹¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕin²¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕin²¹⁻⁴¹ hɔŋ³³/

Verb

信奉

1. to believe in; to have faith in

Antonyms

• 背棄／背弃 (bèiqì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (信奉):

• → Japanese: 信 (しん)奉 (ぽう) (shinpō)
• → Korean: 신봉 (信奉, sinbong)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
信	奉
しん Grade: 4	ほう > ぽう Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

信奉 (hiragana しんぽう, rōmaji shinpō)

1. belief, faith

Verb

信奉する (hiragana しんぽうする, rōmaji shinpō suru)

1. to believe
   • 1947, 海野十三, 金属人間:

     その確率 (かくりつ)の法則 (ほうそく)を作 (つく)った学者 (がくしゃ)や、それを信 (しん)奉 (ぽう)する後続 (こうぞく)の学究学徒 (がっきゅうがくと)の推論 (すいろん)によれば……。

     Sono kakuritsu no hōsoku o tsukutta gakusha ya, sore o shinpō suru kōzoku no gakkyū gakuto no suiron ni yoreba…….

     If you went by the deductions of the scholars who discovered the laws of probability and all of their students, followers, and such...

Conjugation

Conjugation of "信奉する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	信奉し	しんぽうし	shinpō shi
Continuative (連用形)	信奉し	しんぽうし	shinpō shi
Terminal (終止形)	信奉する	しんぽうする	shinpō suru
Attributive (連体形)	信奉する	しんぽうする	shinpō suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	信奉すれ	しんぽうすれ	shinpō sure
Imperative (命令形)	信奉せよ¹ 信奉しろ²	しんぽうせよ¹ しんぽうしろ²	shinpō seyo¹ shinpō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	信奉される	しんぽうされる	shinpō sareru
Causative	信奉させる 信奉さす	しんぽうさせる しんぽうさす	shinpō saseru shinpō sasu
Potential	信奉できる	しんぽうできる	shinpō dekiru
Volitional	信奉しよう	しんぽうしよう	shinpō shiyō
Negative	信奉しない	しんぽうしない	shinpō shinai
Negative continuative	信奉せず	しんぽうせず	shinpō sezu
Formal	信奉します	しんぽうします	shinpō shimasu
Perfective	信奉した	しんぽうした	shinpō shita
Conjunctive	信奉して	しんぽうして	shinpō shite
Hypothetical conditional	信奉すれば	しんぽうすれば	shinpō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative