Chinese Character Wiki
德

dé

virtue

Originally written as 惪, depicting a straight (直) heart (心). The 彳 (walk) component was added later.

Components
彳 meaning component

彳  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

惪 sound,meaning component

惪  Sound Meaning component

dé

  

virtue

Original form of 德.

Evolution

德 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
德 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
德 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
德 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
德 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

德  

dé

ethics, morality, virtue; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind

德  

Dé

Germany; German; abbr. for 德國|德国[Dé​guó]

德 (惪) 

dé

variant of 德[dé]

Most common words with 德
Freq.
Word
Meaning

德

virtue

德国

Germany

道德

virtue

西德

West Germany

霍华德

Howard (name)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤək

tok

dé

virtue


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 50.2963% of movies

286th most common character in movies

256th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5FB7

Shuowen

“德，升也。从彳，聲。”


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