得 — Chinese character

得

dé

to obtain, to get, to acquire; suitable, proper; ready

Pinyin: dé
Radical: 60 ⼻ (Step)
Strokes: 11
Components: 彳旦寸
Formation: ideographic — A hand 寸 grabbing a shell 旦
Japanese: 得 as a kanji

Common words with 得

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
觉得 (覺得)	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
获得 (獲得)	huò dé	to obtain; to receive; to get
得到	dé dào	to get; to obtain; to receive
取得	qǔ dé	to acquire; to get; to obtain
记得 (記得)	jì de	to remember
值得	zhí de	worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)
变得 (變得)	biàn de	to become
不得	bù dé	must not; may not
使得	shǐ de	usable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable
赢得 (贏得)	yíng dé	to win; to gain
不得不	bù dé bù	have no choice or option but to; cannot but
得以	dé yǐ	able to; so that sb can

English words written with 得

得 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 33 · Analects 50 · Art of War 34 · I Ching 25 · Mencius 177 · Zhuangzi 309 · Great Learning 10 · Doctrine of the Mean 10

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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