建德

建德

Chinese

		to establish; to found; to set up to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct	Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
simp. and trad. (建德)		建	德

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàndé

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gin³ dak¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàndé
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàndé
    • Wade–Giles: chien⁴-tê²
    • Yale: jyàn-dé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiannder
    • Palladius: цзяньдэ (czjanʹdɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɛn⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 建德 見得／见得

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: gin³ dak¹
    • Yale: gin dāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gin³ dak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gin³ deg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːn³³ tɐk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 建德 見得／见得

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨɐn^H  tək̚/

Rime
Character	建	德
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	元 (65)	登 (131)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	居万切	多則切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨɐnH/	/tək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kiɐnH/	/tək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɐnH/	/tək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨanH/	/tək̚/
Li Rong	/kiɐnH/	/tək̚/
Wang Li	/kĭɐnH/	/tək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɨ̯ɐnH/	/tək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàn	de
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gin3	dak1

Verb

建德

1. (literary) to establish virtue

Proper noun

建德

1. the Jiande era (572-578), a Chinese era name from the reign of Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou
2. (～市) Jiande (a county-level city in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China)