大德

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favour; character; kind
simp. and trad. (大德)		大	德

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàdé

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄜˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-tek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàdé
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄉㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàdé
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-tê²
    • Yale: dà-dé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahder
    • Palladius: дадэ (dadɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-tek
    • Tâi-lô: tāi-tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixdeg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ tiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tai⁴¹⁻²² tiɪk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ tiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ tiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ tiɪk̚³²/

Noun

大德

1. (literary) great favour
2. (literary) great virtue
3. (literary) virtuous people
4. (Buddhism) honorific for elderly monks, Buddha or Bodhisattva

Synonyms

• (great virtue): (literary) 明德 (míngdé), (literary) 盛德 (shèngdé), (literary) 至德 (zhìdé)

Derived terms

• 大恩大德 (dà'ēndàdé)

 

Proper noun

大德

1. (～鎮) Dade (a town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China)