哲

zhé
#1,115 most
frequent character
wise, a sage

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

哲 has 口 (mouth) as the picture part and 折 zhé as the sound part. It first meant 'wise,' then grew to 'wisdom' and 'philosophy.'

Drawn as: mouth

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Homophones

乙zhé
turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折[zhe2]

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