美德

See also: 美徳

Chinese

		beautiful; beauty; America	Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
simp. and trad. (美德)		美	德

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měidé

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄉㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ dak¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mî-tet
Min Nan (POJ): bí-tiak / bí-tek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: měidé
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄉㄜˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeider
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ tɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁵ dak¹
  - Yale: méih dāk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ dak⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ deg¹
  - IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ tɐk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mî-tet
  - Hakka Romanization System: mi´ ded`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mi¹ ded⁵
  - IPA: /mi²⁴ tet̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-tiak
  - Tâi-lô: bí-tiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: by'diag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tiak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-tek
  - Tâi-lô: bí-tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: by'deg
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tiɪk̚³²/

Noun

美德

virtue (behaviour of a high moral standard); noble attribute
- 美德之光能盈滿每個靈魂。 [MSC, trad.]
  美德之光能盈满每个灵魂。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2004, 八尾半 (“Eight-and-a-Half-Tails”), in 《神河群英录》 (Chronicles of the Champions of Kamigawa), Wizards of the Coast
  Měidé zhī guāng néng yíngmǎn měi ge línghún. [Pinyin]
  Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.
孝順是中華民族的傳統美德。 [MSC, trad.]
孝顺是中华民族的传统美德。 [MSC, simp.]
Xiàoshùn shì zhōnghuámínzú de chuántǒng měidé. [Pinyin]
Filial piety is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people.

Korean

Hanja in this term
美	德

Noun

美德 • (mideok) (hangeul 미덕)

Hanja form^? of 미덕 (“virtue”).

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