Reading
ethics, morality, virtue
큰 덕keun deok
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 큰 (keun) is the Korean for ethics, and 덕 (deok) is the reading. Say 큰 덕 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- ⼻ 60
- Beyond radical
- 12
- Mandarin
- dé
- Japanese on
- toku
- Japanese kun
- oshie
Vocabulary
Words that use 德
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
Indebtedness
Character by character ethics + divide
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.