積德

Chinese

		to amass; to accumulate; to store to amass; to accumulate; to store; old; long-standing	Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favour; character; kind
trad. (積德)		積	德
simp. (积德)		积	德

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīdé

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄉㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹ dak¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chek-tek

(Teochew, Peng'im): zêh⁴ dêg⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷ciq-teq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīdé
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄉㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jidé
  - Wade–Giles: chi¹-tê²
  - Yale: jī-dé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jider
  - Palladius: цзидэ (czidɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zik¹ dak¹
  - Yale: jīk dāk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷ dak⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: jig¹ deg¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵ tɐk̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek-tek
  - Tâi-lô: tsik-tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zekdeg
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zêh⁴ dêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseh tek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seʔ²⁻⁴ tek̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷ciq-teq
  - MiniDict: cih^入 teh
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴jiq-teq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕiɪʔ³³ təʔ⁴⁴/

Verb

積德

to accumulate merit; to do good when possible

Synonyms

修善 (xiūshàn) (literary)
修好 (xiūhǎo) (regional)
種德 / 种德 (zhòngdé) (literary)
積善 / 积善 (jīshàn) (literary)
行善 (xíngshàn)
行好 (xínghǎo)

Antonyms

行兇 / 行凶 (xíngxiōng)
逞兇 / 逞凶 (chěngxiōng)

Derived terms

積德累仁 / 积德累仁
積德累功 / 积德累功
行好積德 / 行好积德