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Chinese symbol for “judicious”

明智
míng zhì
sensible; wise; judicious; sagacious

The closest CC-CEDICT match for judicious is 明智 (míng zhì), defined as: sensible; wise; judicious; sagacious.

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Characters and stroke order

明 míng
bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light
radical 72 ⽇ · 8 strokes
智 zhì
wisdom, knowledge, intelligence
radical 72 ⽇ · 12 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 明智.

WordPinyinMeaning
说明 (說明)shuō míngto explain; to illustrate
证明 (證明)zhèng míngproof; certificate
明白míng baiclear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable
明显 (明顯)míng xiǎnclear; distinct
明天míng tiāntomorrow
明确 (明確)míng quèclear-cut; definite; explicit; to clarify; to specify; to make definite
智慧zhì huìwisdom; intelligence
智能zhì néngintelligent; able

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