How to say "trust" in Japanese

• 信頼しんらいJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbTrust in a person: reliance on someone's character, ability, or sincerity. This is what you mean when you say you trust a friend, relative, or colleague.
  確たしかに彼かれは信頼しんらいできます。↗

  You can certainly rely on him.
• 信用しんようJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers taking a person's word at face value — believing them. Also the reputation side of trust: a person's or company's creditworthiness, the standing that makes others trust them.
  私はもう彼かれを信用しんようしない。↗

  I do not trust him any longer.
• 信託しんたくCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe legal and financial sense: formally entrusting money or property to another party to manage — a trust in the lawyer's or banker's sense. Not for everyday interpersonal trust; use 信頼 or 信用.
• トラストCommon
  nounThe katakana loanword, taken straight from English 'trust'. It is seldom the word you want for trusting a person — for that, 信頼 or 信用 is the natural choice.
• 信任しんにんJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbTrust as confidence formally placed in a person — by a superior, an electorate, or an official body. It has a public, official flavor and is not the casual word for personal trust.

Choose 信頼 for trust in a person, 信用 for taking someone's word or for creditworthiness, 信託 for entrusting money or property, 信任 for confidence formally placed in a person, and 「トラスト」 as the loanword.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 信頼しんらいtrust (in)
• 信用しんようconfidence
• 信託しんたくtrust
• トラストtrust
• 信任しんにんtrust
• 委託いたくentrusting (something to a person)
• 信憑しんぴょうtrust
• 企業合同きぎょうごうどう(a) trust
• 心を許すこころをゆるすto trust
• 信じきるしんじきるto be certain of
• 信頼感しんらいかん(feeling of) trust
• 信しんtrust
• 見込むみこむto place confidence in
• 頼みたのみreliance
• 顔かおinfluence
• 許すゆるすto trust