诸子百家

諸子百家
zhūzǐ-bǎijiā
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Hundred Schools of Thought
  2. 2 the various philosophical schools of pre-Qin China

Examples

HSK 3
Zhūzǐ-bǎijiā de sīxiǎng zhìjīn yǐngxiǎng zhe Zhōngguó wénhuà.
The thought of the Hundred Schools still influences Chinese culture today.
HSK 4
Tā yánjiū zhūzǐ-bǎijiā yǐjīng èrshí nián le.
He has been studying the Hundred Schools of Thought for twenty years.

Tips

history
Umbrella term for the philosophical explosion of the late Zhou: 诸子 ('the various masters': Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Han Feizi, etc.) and 百家 ('the hundred schools': Confucian , Daoist , Mohist , Legalist , School of Names , Yin-Yang 阴阳, and many more). Han historian Sima Tan grouped them into six schools; later 班固 expanded the count to ten.
memory
Literally 'all the masters, hundred schools': = various, = master/philosopher (as in 孔子, 老子), = hundred (figurative for 'many'), = school of thought. The same appears in 法家 (Legalists), 儒家 (Confucians), 道家 (Daoists).

Stroke Order

zhū
bǎi
jiā