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Former sages
Wise predecessors
America's founders would have been profoundly annoyed by this kind of unreflective ancestor worship.
Confucianism represents the collected teachings of the Chinese sage Confucius, who lived from 551 to 479 BC.

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Open the tool →先哲 (xiān zhé) means “Ancient philosophers, Former sages, Wise predecessors”.
先哲 is pronounced xiān zhé in Mandarin Chinese.
“Ancient philosophers” is 先哲 (xiān zhé) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 先哲, each with pinyin and an English translation.