耶律楚材 Save Sign in to save words yēlǜchǔcái ㄧㄝ ㄌㄩˋ ㄔㄨˇ ㄘㄞˊ Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it Character by character 耶(yē)(phonetic ye) 律(lǜ)surname Lü 楚(chǔ)surname Chu 材(cái)material A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0