哲

哲 U+54F2, 哲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54F2 ← 哱 [U+54F1] CJK Unified Ideographs 哳 → [U+54F3]

Translingual

Han character

哲 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手中口 (QLR), four-corner 5260₂, composition ⿱折口)

1. wise, sagacious
2. wise man, sage

References

• KangXi: page 191, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3667
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 625, character 3
• Unihan data for U+54F2

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哲
alt. forms		喆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哲
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
晢	*ʔljeds, *ʔljed
狾	*ʔljeds
誓	*ɦljeds
逝	*ɦljeds
銴	*ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds
折	*l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎	*hleːws, *qʰred
哳	*ʔr'eːd
踅	*sɢʷled
哲	*ʔl'ed
蜇	*ʔl'ed
悊	*ʔl'ed
嚞	*ted
喆	*ted
硩	*l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ
浙	*ʔljed
晣	*ʔljed
焎	*hred

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhé (zhe²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³
• Min Nan (POJ): tiat / thiat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhé
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chê²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jer
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zit³
    • Yale: jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jid³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiat
    • Tâi-lô: tiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛt̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiat
    • Tâi-lô: thiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiad
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛt̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠiᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	哲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	陟列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhe

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tr[e]t/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'ed/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	哲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhé
Middle Chinese	‹ trjet ›
Old Chinese	/*tr[e]t/
English	wise
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哲
Reading #	1/1
No.	16941
Phonetic component	折
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	哲
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'ed/

Definitions

哲

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Compounds

• 哲人 (zhérén)
• 哲人其萎
• 哲人石

• 哲學／哲学 (zhéxué)
• 哲學博士／哲学博士 (zhéxué bóshì)
• 哲學史／哲学史

• 哲學家／哲学家 (zhéxuéjiā)
• 哲理 (zhélǐ)

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Japanese

Kanji

哲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. philosophy
2. clear

Readings

• Goon: てち (techi)
• Kan’on: てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka), さとい (satoi)

Proper noun

哲 (hiragana さとし, rōmaji Satoshi)

1. A male given name

哲 (hiragana てつ, rōmaji Tetsu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

哲 • (cheol)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 철 (revised: cheol, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏl)
  • Name (hangeul): 밝을

1. wise, sagacious
2. wise man, sage

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Vietnamese

Han character

哲 (triết, chít, trết, trít)

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