dé
virtue
Virtuous people have a straight (直) heart (心). 直 also represents the sound. Original form of 德.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
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 | 12 |
Unicode | U+60EA |
Shuowen | “惪,外得於人,內得於己也。从直,从心。” |
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