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Translingual

Han character

(radical 60 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹人十田心 (HOJWP), four-corner 24236, composition𢛳)

  1. ethics, morality, power[1], virtue

References

  • KangXi: page 371, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10243
  • Dae Jaweon: page 698, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 841, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5FB7
  1. De (Chinese), Wikipedia.

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tɯɡs
*dɯɡs, *dɯɡ
*dɯɡs, *djɯɡ
*tʰjɯɡs, *djɯɡ
*tɯːɡ
*tɯːɡ
*tɯɡ
*tʰɯɡ
*dɯɡ
*dɯɡ
*djɯɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (131)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tək̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tək̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tək̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tək̚/
Li
Rong
/tək̚/
Wang
Li
/tək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
de
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tok ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤək/
English virtue

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17266
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tɯːɡ/

Etymology 1

Definitions

  1. virtue; ethics; morality

Etymology 2

Shortening of 德意志 (Déyìzhì), derived from German Deutsch.

Definitions

  1. Germany; German

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. Kyūjitai spelling of .

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(deok) (hangeul , revised deok, McCune-Reischauer tŏk, Yale tek)

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(đức)

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