Chinese Character Wiki
哲

zhé

wise

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 折 represents the sound.

Components
折 sound component

折  Sound component

zhé, shé, zhē

  

break off

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

哲 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
哲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
哲 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
哲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

哲  

zhé

wise, sagacious; wise man, sage; wise; a sage

哲 (喆) 

zhé

(used in given names); variant of 哲[zhé]

Most common words with 哲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

哲学

philosophy

哲

wise

哲学家

philosopher

哲理

philosophy

哲人

wise man

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tr[e]t

trjet

zhé

wise


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 6.0227% of movies

2013th most common character in movies

1117th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+54F2

Shuowen

“哲，知也。从口，折聲。悊，哲或从心。嚞，古文哲从三吉。”


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