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哲

zhé

HSK 5 Character

What 哲 means

1. wise
2. a sage

Example sentences

• 哲学是什幺？
  What is philosophy?
• 哲学就是爱智慧。
  Zhéxué jiùshì ài zhìhuì.
  Philosophy is the love of wisdom.
• 我想成为哲学家。
  I wanted to become a philosopher.
• 我在大学主修哲学。
  I majored in philosophy at my university.
• 好奇是哲学家的本性。
  Hàoqí shì zhéxuéjiā de běnxìng.
  Wonder is the true character of the philosopher.
• 佛教是宗教还是哲学？
  Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?

Words starting with 哲

• 哲学zhé xuéphilosophy
• 哲学家zhé xué jiāphilosopher
• 哲理zhé lǐphilosophic theory; philosophy
• 哲人zhé rénwise man
• 哲学史zhé xué shǐhistory of philosophy
• 哲思zhé sīphilosophical reflection; contemplative philosophical thought
• 哲人石zhé rén shíphilosopher's stone
• 哲学博士zhé xué bó shìDoctor of Philosophy; PhD
• 哲人其萎zhé rén qí wěia wise man has passed away (idiom)
• 哲蚌寺Zhé bàng sìDrepung monastery, Lhasa, Tibet

Words containing 哲

• 麦哲伦Mài zhé lúnMagellan (1480-1521), Portuguese explorer
• 先哲xiān zhéthe wise and learned individuals of the past
• 李哲Lǐ ZhéLi Zhe, personal name of fourth Tang Emperor Zhongzong 唐中宗
• 圣哲shèng zhésage
• 赫哲Hè zhéHezhen ethnic group
• 马哲mǎ zhéMarxist philosophy
• 埃森哲Āi sēn zhéAccenture (company)
• 李远哲Lǐ Yuǎn zhéYuan T. Lee (1936-), Taiwanese-born Chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1986
• 柯文哲Kē Wén zhéKo Wen-je (1959-), Taiwanese independent politician, Mayor of Taipei City from 2014
• 范思哲Fàn sī zhéVersace (fashion designer)
• 赫哲族Hè zhé zúHezhen ethnic group
• 赫哲语Hè zhé yǔHezhen language (of Hezhen ethnic group of Heilongjiang province)
• 明哲保身míng zhé bǎo shēna wise man looks after his own hide (idiom); to put one's own safety before matters of…
• 柏拉图哲学Bó lā tú zhé xuéPlatonism
• 肇俊哲Zhào Jùn zhéZhao Junzhe (1979-), Chinese football player
• 陶哲轩Táo Zhé xuānTerence Tao, Chinese-Australian mathematician, Fields medalist in 2006

Characters built on 折

These share the phonetic component 折 (zhé), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 浙Zhèshort name for Zhejiang 浙江
• 蜇zhēto sting

Characters that look like 哲

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 雪xuěsnow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
• 彗huìbroom
• 堑qiàn(bound form) moat; chasm
• 奘zàng(literary) strong; robust (used in personal names); (colloquial) coarse; boorish
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 折to break; to fracture; to snap
• 辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 蛰to hibernate
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 谪to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region…
• 蜇jellyfish
• 磔old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters