哲

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哲
alternative forms		喆 嚞 啠 悊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

In bronze script, written as 悊 (zhé) and other variants, with no evidence of the existence of 哲 (zhé) until small seal script. In 說文解字／说文解字 (Shuōwén Jiězì), described as a Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔl'ed) : phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 口 (“mouth”) .

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhé (zhe²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chat
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiat / thiat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): diag⁴ / diêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhé
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhé
    • Wade–Giles: chê²
    • Yale: jé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jer
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zit³
    • Yale: jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chat
    • Hakka Romanization System: zad^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sat̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiat
    • Tâi-lô: tiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diad
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛt̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiat
    • Tâi-lô: thiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiad
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛt̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: diag⁴ / diêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiak / tiek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiak̚²/, /tiek̚²/

Note:

• diag4 - Shantou;
• diêg4 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: trjet

Rime
Character	哲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	陟列切
Baxter	trjet
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zit3

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 哲

1. wise, sagacious
2. wise man, sage

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Japanese

Kanji

哲

(Jōyō kanji)

1. philosophy
2. clear

Readings

• Go-on: てち (techi)
• Kan-on: てつ (tetsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 哲らか)、さとい (satoi, 哲い)

Proper noun

哲(さとし) or 哲(てつ) • (Satoshi or Tetsu) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

哲 (eumhun 밝을 철 (balgeul cheol))

1. wise, sagacious
2. wise man, sage

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Vietnamese

Han character

哲: Hán Nôm readings: triết, chít, Chứt, trết, trít

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