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  *德* | 德* | *德
Germany / German / abbr. for 德國|德国
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  *德* | 德* | *德
virtue / goodness / morality / ethics / kindness / favor / character / kind
HSK 7-9
public ethics / social morality
(Tw) Kurd ethnic group
Zoroaster, Zarathustra or Zarathushtra (c. 1200 BC), Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism
Bond (name)
compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues / mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
benevolent integrity / high mindedness
immoral
Quanjude (famous Chinese restaurant)
Don Quixote
Lloyd (name) / Lloyd's (London-based insurance group)
East and West Germany / refers to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
Wudongde, the name of a hydroelectric dam on the Jinsha River 金沙江 at a point where the river forms a border between Yunnan and Sichuan
Floyd (name) / Freud (name) / Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis
Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
moral character
HSK 7-9
benevolence / favor
public morality; social ethics
Bodø (city in Norway)
deeply grateful
Don Quixote / also written 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德
highest virtue / illustrious virtue
Muhammad (c. 570–632), central figure of Islam and prophet of God
of one mind (idiom)
Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
Mossad
William Lai Ching-te (1959-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice president of the Republic of China from 2020
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
Hyde (surname)
USA and Germany
virtue
HSK 7-9
Claude (name)
Lockheed (US aerospace company)
Guide county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州, Qinghai
Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office
to play with others and offend morals / wicked
to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects)
East Germany (1945-1990) / German Democratic Republic 德意志民主共和國|德意志民主共和国
mean; nasty; reprehensible; unprincipled
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Wade (name) / Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛
splendid virtue / majestic moral character / great kindness
Baode county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Julia Gillard (1961–), Australian politician, prime minister 2010–2013
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French philosopher
splendid virtue / majestic moral character / great kindness
immoral; unethical
THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense), US Army anti-ballistic missile system
Sigmund (name)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet and dramatist
to sing the praises of sb
Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照 (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, temple name 明武宗
Richard (name)
a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
Hammond (surname)
Buchenwald
talent and virtue
power and virtue
Claire Lee Chennault (1890–1958), American military aviator and brigadier general, commander of the Flying Tigers 飛虎隊|飞虎队, a volunteer group that assisted China in resisting Japanese forces during World War II
Aristotle (philosopher)
Floyd (name) / Freud (name) / Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis
Shih Ming-teh (1941–2024), Taiwanese politician, imprisoned 1962–1977 and 1980–1990 under the Guomindang, subsequently a leader of DPP 民進黨|民进党, in 2006 led protests against Chen Shui-Bian 陳水扁|陈水扁
Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
old Chinese name for Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India / now called 卡利卡特
virtue / morality / ethics / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Tongde county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州, Qinghai
Donald (name)
wickedness / evil behavior
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
Zebedee (name)
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956-), Iranian fundamentalist politician, president of Iran 2005-2013 / abbr. for 艾哈邁迪內賈德|艾哈迈迪内贾德
Oswald
Enschede, city in the Netherlands
evil conduct
to bathe the body and cleanse virtue (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation / cleanliness is next to godliness
Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
to distinguish oneself through virtue (one the three imperishables 三不朽)
Belgrade, capital of Serbia
Raymond (name)
Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador to Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986
of or relating to Flemish people, language or culture
harpsichord
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
Gillard (name)
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826), German astronomer
Anglo-German / England and Germany

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