诸子十家

1. • various sages and ten schools of thought
2. • refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 rú represented by Confucius 孔子 kǒngzǐ and Mencius 孟子 mèngzǐ, Daoism 道 dào by Laozi 老子 lǎozǐ and Zhuangzi 庄子 zhuāngzǐ, Mohism 墨 mò by Mozi 墨子 mòzǐ, Legalism 法 fǎ by Sunzi 孙子 sūnzǐ and Han Feizi 韩非子 hánfēizǐ, and numerous others

Character by character

• 诸(zhū)surname Zhu
• 子(zǐ)son
• 十(shí)ten
• 家(jiā)home