# 哲

| 哲 | U+54F2, &#21746; 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 5260$_2$, composition ⿱折口)

#### Derived characters

* 𠹗, 𡏥, 𢲃, 𣻂, 𭩁, 𥉭, 𦄃, 𧎴, 𩺢, 𭗀, 𠑵

#### 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哲 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 (zhe$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zit$^3$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chat
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tiat / thiat
    (Teochew, Peng'im): diag$^4$ / diêg$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhé
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhé
*** Wade–Giles: chê$^2$
*** Yale: jé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jer
*** Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zit$^3$
*** Yale: jit
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzit$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siːt̚³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chat
*** Hakka Romanization System: zad$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zad$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sat̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiat
*** Tâi-lô: tiat
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diad
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /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: diag$^4$ / diêg$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiak / tiek
*** Sinological IPA : /tiak̚²/, /tiek̚²/
* diag4 - Shantou;
* diêg4 - Chaozhou.
* 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/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȶi̯ɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhe |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zit$^3$ |
* 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
* Short for 哲學／哲学 (zhéxué, “philosophy”).
    馬哲／马哲 ― mǎzhé ― Marxist philosophy

### Compounds

* 來哲 / 来哲
* 先哲 (xiānzhé)
* 力行哲學 / 力行哲学
* 十哲
* 印度哲學 / 印度哲学
* 哲人 (zhérén)
* 哲人其萎
* 哲人石
* 哲匠
* 哲嗣
* 哲夫 (zhéfū)
* 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
* 哲王
* 哲理 (zhélǐ)
* 宋哲宗
* 希臘哲學 / 希腊哲学
* 常識哲學 / 常识哲学
* 往哲 (wǎngzhé)
* 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
* 啟蒙哲學 / 启蒙哲学
* 明哲 (míngzhé)
* 明哲保身 (míngzhébǎoshēn)
* 民生哲學 / 民生哲学
* 泡麵哲學 / 泡面哲学
* 濬哲
* 睿哲
* 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
* 西哲 (xīzhé)
* 賢哲 / 贤哲 (xiánzhé)
* 赫哲族 (Hèzhézú)
* 道德哲學 / 道德哲学
* 陽明哲學 / 阳明哲学

### References

* “哲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* philosophy
* 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)

### Pronunciation

* Kanji in this term
* 哲
* さとし Grade: S
* nanori
* Kanji in this term
* 哲
* てつ Grade: S
* kan'on
* Kanji in this term
* 哲
* あきら Grade: S
* nanori
* Kanji in this term
* 哲
* さとる Grade: S
* nanori
* (Tokyo) さとし [sáꜜtòshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [sa̠to̞ɕi]
* (Tokyo) てつ [téꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [te̞t͡sɨ]
* (Tokyo) あきら [àkírá] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [a̠kʲiɾa̠]
* (Tokyo) さとる [sàtórú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [sa̠to̞ɾɯ̟]

### Proper noun

哲(さとし) or 哲(てつ) or 哲(あきら) or 哲(さとる) • (Satoshi or Tetsu or Akira or Satoru)
* 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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