得

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Han character

得 (radical 60 彳+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人日一戈 (HOAMI), four-corner 2624₁, composition ⿰彳㝵)

1. obtain, get, gain, acquire

References

• KangXi: page 367, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10137
• Dae Jaweon: page 691, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 828, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5F97

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Cantonese

Hanzi

得 (Jyutping dak1, Yale dak1)

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Japanese

Kanji

得

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とく (toku)
• Kun: える (eru), うる (uru)

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Korean

Hanja

得 (hangeul 득 (deuk), revised deuk, McCune-Reischauer tŭk, Yale tuk)

1. obtain, achieve
2. gain, benefit
3. satisfaction
4. virtue (same as 德)

Derived terms

• 得失 (득실, deuksil)
• 得意 (득의, deugUi)
• 利得 (이득, ideuk)

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Mandarin

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Hanzi

得 (Pinyin dé (de2), de (de5), děi (dei3), Wade-Giles te², te⁵, tei³)

1. -ly; used between a verb and adjective to allow the adjective to modify the verb.

   他跑得快。

   tā bó dé kuài.

   He runs quickly. [literally He runs dé quick.]

   他会画画得好。

   tā huì huàhuà dé hǎo.

   He paints well. [literally He knows how to paint dé good.]

Derived terms

• 得到
• 得力
• 得利
• 得意
• 得益
• 得宜
• 使得

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Vietnamese

Han character

得 (đắc, được, đác, đắt)