德行

Chinese

		Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favour; character; kind	to go; to do; capable to go; to do; capable; all right; competent; OK; to travel; temporary; to walk; will do; behaviour; conduct; a row; profession; professional
simp. and trad. (德行)		德	行

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): déxíng, déxìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ, ㄉㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dak¹ hang⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tet-hen
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tek-hēng / tiak-hēng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: déxíng → déxing (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ → ㄉㄜˊ ˙ㄒㄧㄥ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dési̊ng
    • Wade–Giles: tê²-hsing⁵
    • Yale: dé-sying
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: der.shyng
    • Palladius: дэсин (dɛsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤ³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵/ → /tɤ³⁵ ɕiŋ³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: déxìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: désìng
    • Wade–Giles: tê²-hsing⁴
    • Yale: dé-syìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dershinq
    • Palladius: дэсин (dɛsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤ³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dak¹ hang⁶
    • Yale: dāk hahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dak⁷ hang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: deg¹ heng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐk̚⁵ hɐŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tet-hen
    • Hakka Romanization System: ded` hen
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ded⁵ hen⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tet̚² hen⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek-hēng
    • Tâi-lô: tik-hīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dekheng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ hiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ hiɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiak-hēng
    • Tâi-lô: tiak-hīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diakheng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ hiɪŋ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tok haengH

Rime
Character	德	行
Reading #	1/1	4/4
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	德 (131)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	多則切	下更切
Baxter	tok	haengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tək̚/	/ɦˠæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/tək̚/	/ɦᵚaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/tək̚/	/ɣaŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tək̚/	/ɦaɨjŋH/
Li Rong	/tək̚/	/ɣɐŋH/
Wang Li	/tək̚/	/ɣɐŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tək̚/	/ɣɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	de	hèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dak1	hang6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤək  [ɡ]ˤraŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tɯːɡ  ɡraːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	德	行
Reading #	1/1	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dé	xíng
Middle Chinese	‹ tok ›	‹ hængH ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁək/	/*[ɡ]ˁraŋ-s/
English	virtue	action
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	德	行
Reading #	1/1	4/4
No.	17266	13876
Phonetic component	直	行
Rime group	職	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	德	行
Old Chinese	/*tɯːɡ/	/*ɡraːŋs/

Noun

德行

1. morality; moral integrity; honourable conduct

   敗壞德行／败坏德行  ―  bàihuài déxíng  ―  depravity

2. Alternative form of 德性

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (德行):

• → Korean: 덕행(德行) (deokhaeng)
• → Vietnamese: đức hạnh (德行)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): déxing

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄜˊ ˙ㄒㄧㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: déxing
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄜˊ ˙ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dési̊ng
    • Wade–Giles: tê²-hsing⁵
    • Yale: dé-sying
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: der.shing
    • Palladius: дэсин (dɛsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤ³⁵ ɕiŋ³/

Noun

德行

1. (colloquial) disagreeable behaviour or appearance

Synonyms

• 德性 (déxìng)