- 信じる — to believe
- 自信 — confidence
- 通信 — communication
- 信用 — trust / credit
- 信号 — traffic signal
- 確信 — conviction
- 送信 — transmission (sending)
- 受信 — reception (receiving)
信 combines the person radical 亻 with 言 (words), evoking “a person’s words” → reliability → trust. Note: 信じる is built from the on-yomi シン + verb ending じる and functions as the everyday verb “to believe.”
彼を 信じてください。
Please believe in him.
私は 自信があります。
I have confidence in myself.