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德

dé

HSK 5 Character

What 德 means

1. virtue
2. goodness
3. morality
4. ethics
5. kindness
6. favor
7. character
8. kind

Other readings

德 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• DéGermany; German; abbr. for {德国|Dé guó}
• dévariant of {德|dé}
• dévariant of {德|dé}

Example sentences

• 德语好学吗？
  Déyǔ hǎoxué ma?
  Is German easy to learn?
• 我不懂德语。
  I don't understand German.
• 你说德语吗？
  Do you speak German?
• 您说德语吗？
  Do you speak German?
• 德语难学吗？
  Is it hard to learn German?
• 我想去德国。
  I want to go to Germany.

Words starting with 德

• 德国Dé guóGermany
• 德语Dé yǔGerman (language)
• 德文Dé wénGerman (language)
• 德里Dé lǐDelhi; New Delhi, capital of India; same as 新德里
• 德行dé xíngmorality and conduct; Taiwan pr. dé xìng
• 德育dé yùmoral education
• 德意志Dé yì zhìDeutschland; Germany
• 德性dé xìngmoral integrity
• 德高望重dé gāo wàng zhòng(idiom) a person of virtue and prestige; a person of good moral standing and reputation
• 德累斯顿Dé léi sī dùnDresden, capital of Saxony 萨克森州
• 德里达Dé lǐ dáJacques Derrida (1930-2004), philosopher
• 德胜门Dé shèng ménDeshengmen (Beijing)
• 德黑兰Dé hēi lánTehran, capital of Iran
• 德式Dé shìGerman-style
• 德政dé zhèngbenevolent government
• 德比dé bǐ(sports; loanword) derby (contest between local rivals)
• 德先生Dé xiān sheng"Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四运动; abbr. for 德谟克拉西…
• 德国人Dé guó rénGerman person or people
• 德国结dé guó jiépretzel
• 德拉门Dé lā ménDrammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
• 德国马克Dé guó mǎ kèGerman mark
• 德国战车Dé guó zhàn chēRammstein (German metal band)
• 德治dé zhìrule by virtue; rule by setting virtuous example (Confucian ideal)
• 德士dé shì(Singapore, Malaysia) taxi (loanword)

Words containing 德

• 道德dào dévirtue; morality; ethics
• 品德pǐn démoral character
• 美德měi dévirtue
• 马德里Mǎ dé lǐMadrid, capital of Spain
• 朱德Zhū DéZhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
• 肯德基Kěn dé jīKFC; Kentucky Fried Chicken
• 功德gōng déachievements and virtue
• 穆罕默德Mù hǎn mò déMuhammad (c. 570–632), central figure of Islam and prophet of God
• 拉德lā dérad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
• 安德烈Ān dé lièAndre (person name)
• 彭德怀Péng Dé huáiPeng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo…
• 西德Xī DéWest Germany; German Federal Republic 德意志联邦共和国
• 刘德华Liú Dé huáAndy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor
• 歌德gē déto sing the praises of sb
• 康德Kāng déImmanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
• 爱德华Ài dé huáEdward; Édouard (name)
• 不道德bù dào déimmoral
• 缺德quē démean; nasty; reprehensible; unprincipled
• 加德满都Jiā dé mǎn dūKathmandu, capital of Nepal
• 公德gōng dépublic ethics; social morality
• 霍华德Huò huá dé(name) Howard
• 道德经Dào dé jīngthe Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism
• 斯德哥尔摩Sī dé gē ěr móStockholm, capital of Sweden
• 查德Chá déChad (Tw)

Characters built on 心

These share the phonetic component 心 (xīn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 恶èevil; fierce; vicious
• 惹rěto provoke; to irritate; to vex
• 忒tèto err; to change
• 忑tèused in 忐忑
• 慝tèevil thought

Characters that look like 德

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 稳wěnsettled; steady; stable
• 煽shānto fan into a flame; to incite
• 撼hànto shake; to vibrate
• 辗zhǎnused in 辗转
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 辕yuánshaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen…

Sounds the same

Read dé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 得to obtain; to get; to gain
• 锝technetium (chemistry)
• 㝵to obtain (old variant of 得
• 淂(river); old variant of 得
• 㥁variant of 德