Chinese Character Wiki
惪

dé

virtue

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

Components
直 sound,meaning component

直  Sound Meaning component

zhí

  

straight

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

惪 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
惪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

惪  

dé

ethics

德 (惪) 

dé

variant of 德[dé]

Most common words with 惪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

德

virtue

德国

Germany

道德

virtue

西德

West Germany

霍华德

Howard (name)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

德

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

德 聽

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。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License