GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 490

信

信 is read as xìn.

Pinyin

xìn

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 信

Basic meaning

trust, believe; letter

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Warring States tradition, 475-221 BCE

Place: Xinling, identified in the sources with present Henan Ningling; later distribution summaries mention Shandong and Hebei.

Origin note

Xin is not explained here from the ordinary word trust. The checked origin layer is a fief-name surname: Wei prince Wuji was enfeoffed at Xinling and later descendants used Xin as a surname element. A second, separate layer records Shen being transmitted as Xin. The page keeps both as recorded layers and does not turn them into one founder-only story.

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