智 (wisdom, intellect, reason)

智子ともこはイソイソと出掛でかけていった。

Tomoko bounced happily out the door.

美智子みちこはまるで北極ほっきょくに行って来きたような口くちぶりだ。

Michiko talks as if she had been to the Arctic herself.

このころ新平は窮乏生活を強がって、「人智は空腹よりいずる」を口癖にしたという。

It was around this time that steeled himself against a life of poverty and it is reputed that he would often say that 'Knowledge comes from hunger.'