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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sìn-hǒng / sìn-hōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xìnfèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄈㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìnfòng
    • Wade–Giles: hsin⁴-fêng⁴
    • Yale: syìn-fèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinnfenq
    • Palladius: синьфэн (sinʹfɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ fɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon³ fung⁶
    • Yale: seun fuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³ fung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³ fung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³ fʊŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin-fung
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin fung
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴ fung⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵ fuŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-hǒng
    • Tâi-lô: sìn-hǒng
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn-hōng
    • Tâi-lô: sìn-hōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sienhong
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹⁻⁴¹ hɔŋ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sin²¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ²²/

Verb

信奉

1. to believe in; to have faith in

Synonyms

• 崇奉 (chóngfèng)

Antonyms

• 背棄／背弃 (bèiqì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (信奉):

• → Japanese: 信奉(しんぽう) (shinpō)
• → Korean: 신봉(信奉) (sinbong)

Japanese

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

Noun

信(しん)奉(ぽう) • (shinpō) 

1. belief, faith

Verb

信(しん)奉(ぽう)する • (shinpō suru) suru (stem 信(しん)奉(ぽう)し (shinpō shi), past 信(しん)奉(ぽう)した (shinpō shita))

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、それを信奉(しんぽう)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)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	信奉し	しんぽうし	shinpō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	信奉し	しんぽうし	shinpō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	信奉する	しんぽうする	shinpō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	信奉する	しんぽうする	shinpō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	信奉すれ	しんぽうすれ	shinpō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	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

References

• “信奉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026