Chinese symbol for “casually”
信手
xìn shǒu
casually; in passing
The closest CC-CEDICT match for casually is 信手 (xìn shǒu), defined as: casually; in passing.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “casually”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 信手.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信息 | xìn xī | information; news; message |
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 信号 (信號) | xìn hào | signal |
| 信仰 | xìn yǎng | to believe in (a religion); firm belief |
| 信任 | xìn rèn | to trust; to have confidence in |
| 信心 | xìn xīn | confidence; faith (in sb or sth) |
| 手机 (手機) | shǒu jī | cell phone; mobile phone; measure word: 部 (bù), 台 (tái) |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability |
See also: Japanese symbol for “casually”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.