私信

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
simp. and trad. (私信)		私	信

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīxìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄒㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ seon³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīxìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihsìn
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-hsin⁴
    • Yale: sz̄-syìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syshinn
    • Palladius: сысинь (sysinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ seon³
    • Yale: sī seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/

Noun

私信

1. (chiefly Internet, Mainland China, Singapore) private message

Verb

私信

1. (chiefly Internet, Mainland China, Singapore) to send a private message to

Synonyms

• 私訊／私讯 (sīxùn)
• (slang, neologism) 私戳 (sīchuō)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (私信):

• → Japanese: 私信(ししん) (shishin)
• → Korean: 사신(私信) (sasin)