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道德

dào dé

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 种

道德 (dào dé) means "virtue". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 道德 means

1. virtue
2. morality
3. ethics

The characters in 道德

• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…
• 德dévirtue; goodness; morality

Example sentences

• 道德上的恶乃是无知的后果。
  Dàodé shàng de è nǎishì wúzhī de hòuguǒ.
  Moral evil is the result of ignorance.
• 为了救许多人牺牲一个人是否道德？
  Wèile jiù xǔduō rén xīshēng yīgèrén shìfǒu dàodé?
  Would it be ethical to sacrifice one person to save many?
• 议员受到了议会道德委员会的谴责。
  Yìyuán shòudào le yìhuì dàodé wěiyuánhuì de qiǎnzé.
  The senator was censured by the congressional ethics committee.
• 这个学校对学生的道德标准要求很高。
  Zhège xuéxiào duì xuésheng de dàodé biāozhǔn yāoqiú hěn gāo.
  This school sets high moral standards for pupils.
• 必须判断一个行为是否符合道德标准。
  Bìxū pànduàn yí ge xíngwéi shìfǒu fúhé dàodé biāozhǔn.
  It needs to be judged on whether it meets the ethical standards.
• 在这座城市里，公共道德不再受到尊重。
  Public morals are not respected anymore in this town.

Words starting with 道德

• 道德经Dào dé jīngthe Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism
• 道德观dào dé guānone's perspective on morality
• 道德家dào dé jiāDaoist
• 道德高地dào dé gāo dìmoral high ground
• 道德认识dào dé rèn shimoral cognition; ethical awareness
• 道德困境dào dé kùn jìngethical dilemma
• 道德败坏dào dé bài huàivice; immorality; moral turpitude
• 道德绑架dào dé bǎng jiàto coerce by invoking moral obligations (duty, sacrifice, reciprocation etc)…
• 道德沦丧dào dé lún sàngmoral bankruptcy; moral degeneracy

Words containing 道德

• 不道德bù dào déimmoral
• 公共道德gōng gòng dào dépublic morality; social ethics
• 仁义道德rén yì dào décompassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues…

Sounds the same

Read dào dé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 到得to arrive at (some place or time)

Where 道德 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Ethics, Law & Social Harmony (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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