布德

Bùdé
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Meanings

  1. 1 Boode/Bude/Budde (Western surname transliteration)
  2. 2 (literary, archaic) to spread virtue (布 'to spread' + 德 'virtue')

Examples

Bùdé xiānsheng cóng Hélán lái.
Mr. Boode is from the Netherlands.
Gǔrén jiǎngjiu xiūshēn bùdé.
The ancients valued self-cultivation and the spreading of virtue.

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usage
Two readings depending on context. As a name, 布德 is a phonetic transliteration of Western surnames like Boode/Bude/Budde: (bù) for 'B-' (the standard Chinese opener for foreign B-names) + (dé) for '-de'. As a literary verb-object phrase, 布德 means 'to spread/disseminate virtue', occasionally appearing in classical-style writing alongside 修身 ('cultivate oneself').

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