德是什麼意思？ What does the word—德 mean？

【“德” (dé ) 是什麼意思？】

上個週末你也去華山野餐嗎？

你知道旁邊的八德商圈賣什麼嗎？

Did you go picnic last weekend as well? Having a lot of fun there.

You know what sells in the “Bādé Shopping Distric” right next to you?

八德又是哪八德呢？

And what exactly the Eight Dé refers?

等等，我們看一看生活中的“德”

Wait, shall we take a look around---

“德” in daily life:

也有一句中國成語「厚德載物」，這句話最早出現在易經裡。

And there is a old Chinese idiom reads like this「厚德載物」(hòu dé zǎi wù )

which appears at the earliest in I-Ching, a book can dates back to 1000–750 BC.

先讓我們查一查字典：

First let us look it up on dictionary :

德 dé 如“品德”，“美德”，意思是人的美好行為。

德 I dé I virtue, morality (n.

接著，我們看圖片裡“德”這個字。

So let's see the character of "德" in the picture.

第一步，我們分析這個字的結構。

First we deconstruction the character, divide into three parts.

有行人的「行」(xíng)，直走的「直」(zhí)，還有一yī ＋心xīn。

什麼意思？

What does that mean?

＾在路上一心往前直走

^ Straight walk whole-heartedly while on the road.

現在，你是不是更明白“德”的意思呢？

Now you know how Chinese people think of morally exellence ,isn't it?

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