King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

則 — Chinese character

則
zé
rule, law, regulation; grades

Pinyin
zé
Radical
18 ⼑ (Knife)
Strokes
9
Components
貝 刂
Formation
ideographic — Laws inscribed 刂 on a slate 貝
Simplified
则
Japanese
則 as a kanji

則 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 32 · Analects 124 · Art of War 85 · I Ching 9 · Mencius 425 · Zhuangzi 493 · Great Learning 14 · Doctrine of the Mean 44

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.