路德

Chinese

		road; path; way	Germany; virtue; goodness Germany; virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favour; character; kind
simp. and trad. (路德)		路	德

Etymology

Borrowed from German Luther, or English Rudd.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lùdé

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁶ dak¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lùdé
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lùdé
    • Wade–Giles: Lu⁴-tê²
    • Yale: Lù-dé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Luhder
    • Palladius: Лудэ (Ludɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁶ dak¹
    • Yale: louh dāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁶ dak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁶ deg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²² tɐk̚⁵/

Proper noun

路德

1. Short for 馬丁路德／马丁路德 (Mǎdīng Lùdé, “Martin Luther”).
2. A transliteration of the German surname Luther
3. A transliteration of the English male given name Luther
4. A transliteration of the English surname Rudd
5. Luther (name of a city or town)

Usage notes

Since 路 (lù) is a common Chinese surname, in some cases could be parsed as 路 (Lù, “family name”) + 德 (Dé, “given name”).

Derived terms

• 路德宗 (Lùdézōng)
• 路德教
• 路德教派
• 路德會／路德会 (Lùdéhuì)
• 馬丁·路德·金紀念日／马丁·路德·金纪念日 (Mǎdīng Lùdé Jīn Jìniànrì)

 

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
路	德

Proper noun

路德

1. chữ Hán form of Lộ Đức (“Lourdes”).