Chinese symbol for “piety”
虔信
qián xìn
piety; devotion (to a religion); pious (believer); devout
The closest CC-CEDICT match for piety is 虔信 (qián xìn), defined as: piety; devotion (to a religion); pious (believer); devout.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 虔信.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虔诚 (虔誠) | qián chéng | pious; devout |
| 虔敬 | qián jìng | reverent |
| 一秉虔诚 (一秉虔誠) | yī bǐng qián chéng | earnestly and sincerely (idiom); devoutly |
| 敬虔 | jìng qián | devout |
| 虔信主义 (虔信主義) | qián xìn zhǔ yì | fideism; fundamentalism |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “piety”.
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.