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德

德

See also: 徳 and 惪

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 德
alt. forms
 
徳
惪
悳
㥁
恴
㥀
㤫
𢛳
𢜖
𢠀
𢤊
𨗌
𨗤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 德
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (直) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
置 *tɯɡs
值 *dɯɡs, *dɯɡ
植 *dɯɡs, *djɯɡ
埴 *tʰjɯɡs, *djɯɡ
惪 *tɯːɡ
德 *tɯːɡ
稙 *tɯɡ
淔 *tʰɯɡ
直 *dɯɡ
犆 *dɯɡ
殖 *djɯɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 德
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 德 (131)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 多則切
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 德
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dé
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 德
Reading # 1/1
No. 17266
Phonetic
component		 直
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 德
Old
Chinese		 /*tɯːɡ/

Etymology 1

Definitions

德

  1. virtue; ethics; morality

Etymology 2

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

Definitions

德

  1. Germany; German

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

德

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. Kyūjitai spelling of 徳.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

德 (đức)

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