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: 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

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, 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
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): tiat / thiat

(Teochew, Peng'im): diag⁴ / diêg⁴

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 Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chat
  - Hakka Romanization System: zad`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zad⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sat̚²/
Min Nan
- (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.

Middle Chinese: /ʈˠiᴇt̚/

Rime
Character	哲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	仙 (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

哲

wise, sagacious
wise man, sage

Compounds

先哲 (xiānzhé)
十哲
哲人 (zhérén)
哲人其萎
哲人石
哲匠
哲嗣
哲夫 (zhéfū)
哲王
哲理 (zhélǐ)
宋哲宗
往哲 (wǎngzhé)
明哲 (míngzhé)
明哲保身 (míngzhébǎoshēn)
濬哲

西哲 (xīzhé)
赫哲族 (Hèzhézú)
睿哲
來哲／来哲
力行哲學／力行哲学
印度哲學／印度哲学
哲婦／哲妇
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)
哲學碩士／哲学硕士 (zhéxuéshuòshì)
哲學系／哲学系
啟蒙哲學／启蒙哲学
希臘哲學／希腊哲学

常識哲學／常识哲学
批判哲學／批判哲学
政治哲學／政治哲学
教父哲學／教父哲学
教育哲學／教育哲学
民生哲學／民生哲学
泡麵哲學／泡面哲学
科學哲學／科学哲学
經院哲學／经院哲学
老莊哲學／老庄哲学
聖哲／圣哲
賢哲／贤哲 (xiánzhé)
道德哲學／道德哲学
陽明哲學／阳明哲学

Japanese

Kanji

哲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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)

a male given name

Korean

Hanja

哲 (eumhun 밝을 철 (balgeul cheol))

wise, sagacious
wise man, sage

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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