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 4
Tā yánjiū zhūzǐ-bǎijiā yǐjīng èrshí nián le.
He has been studying the Hundred Schools of Thought for twenty years.
HSK 5
Zhūzǐ-bǎijiā de sīxiǎng zhìjīn yǐngxiǎng zhe Zhōngguó wénhuà.
The thought of the Hundred Schools still influences Chinese culture today.

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