德
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virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 彳 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 德
- Common rank
- #72
- Unicode
- U+5FB7
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Words with 德
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一心一德 | of one heart and one mind (idiom) | |
| 德国人 | German person or people | |
| 马德拉斯 | Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4], capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India | |
| 化德县 | Huade, a county in Ulanqab City 烏蘭察布市|乌兰察布市[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 德化县 | Dehua, a county in Quanzhou City 泉州市[Quan2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 德国马克 | German mark | |
| 德安县 | De'an, a county in Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi | |
| 德国 | Germany | |
| 公德心 | civility; public spirit | |
| 尔德 | Eid (Islam) | |
| 不道德 | immoral | |
| 安德海 | An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowa… | |
| 有德行 | virtuous | |
| 德性 | moral integrity | |
| 德性 | (coll.) revolting behavior; CL:副[fu4] | |
| 拉德 | rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword) | |
| 海德 | (surname) Hyde | |
| 道德高地 | moral high ground | |
| 化德 | see 化德縣|化德县[Hua4 de2 Xian4] | |
| 德化 | see 德化縣|德化县[De2 hua4 Xian4] |