寄信

Chinese

		lodge at; to mail; to send lodge at; to mail; to send; to entrust; to depend	letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
simp. and trad. (寄信)		寄	信

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìxìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei³ seon³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ki-sin
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵ci ⁵shin; ⁵ci-shin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìxìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìsìn
    • Wade–Giles: chi⁴-hsin⁴
    • Yale: jì-syìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jihshinn
    • Palladius: цзисинь (czisinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei³ seon³
    • Yale: gei seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei³ soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi³ sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯³³ sɵn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ki-sin
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi xin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi⁴ xin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ki⁵⁵ sin⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵ci ⁵shin; ⁵ci-shin
    • MiniDict: ci^去 shin^去; ci^去 shin
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ji ²xin; ²ji-xin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕi⁴⁴  ɕin³⁴/, /t͡ɕi³³ ɕin⁴⁴/

Verb

寄信

1. to post a letter; to mail

   我明天要去郵局給你寄信。 [MSC, trad.]
   我明天要去邮局给你寄信。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ míngtiān yào qù yóujú gěi nǐ jìxìn. [Pinyin]

   I want to go to the post office tomorrow to send you a letter.

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 寄批