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德行 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • virtue noun Moral goodness or excellence of character.

Senses

德行 is used for these senses in English:

  • virtue (conceptually): (uncountable) The idea of all that is good or excellent (in every sense of those terms) in a human being, collectively instantiated by a varying number of human traits known as "the virtues", the enumeration of which vary by the many virtue systems which have developed within different cultures, religions, and historical periods.

virtue — full definition

  1. noun Moral goodness or excellence of character.
  2. noun A particular good quality or admirable trait.
  3. noun A beneficial or advantageous quality of something.