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Kanji for Virtue
The kanji for “virtue” is 徳, read toku and written in 14 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
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Virtue and good character.
Tokugawa Ieyasu unified feudal Japan in 1603, establishing over two centuries of peace during the Edo period.
14 strokes On reading トク (toku) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: benevolence, virtue, goodness, commanding respect
Readings used for names on Nazuke: toku, nori, yoshi
In Japan it appears in about 609 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 徳: Elinore 英理徳 · Eleonore 英玲央徳
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