策
policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,194 U+7B56
How 策 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 朿 (phonetic, cì)
components: ⺮ 朿
How to remember it
strategy · Heisig RSH #792
竹 bamboo + thorn
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 朿
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 朿 (cì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 朿 sound component | cì | thorn, sting, prickle; to stab; to assassinate |
| 刺 | cì | to stab; to prick, to irritate; to prod |
| 棘 | jí | jujube tree; thorns, brambles |
Words containing 策
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上上之策 | shàng shàng zhī cè | the best policy; the best thing one can do in the circumstances |
| 上有政策，下有对策 | shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè | The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around t… |
| 一个中国政策 | yī gè Zhōng guó zhèng cè | one-China policy |
| 三十六计，走为上策 | sān shí liù jì , zǒu wéi shàng cè | of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom); the best thing to do is … |
| 独生子女政策 | dú shēng zǐ nǚ zhèng cè | one-child policy |
| 国家政策 | guó jiā zhèng cè | state policy |
| 三光政策 | Sān guāng Zhèng cè | Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII |
| 外交政策 | wài jiāo zhèng cè | foreign policy |
| 对外政策 | duì wài zhèng cè | foreign policy |
| 战国策 | Zhàn guó cè | "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), p… |
| 策源地 | cè yuán dì | place of origin; source (of a war or a social movement) |
| 群策群力 | qún cè qún lì | (idiom) to act in concert; to pool ideas and efforts |
| 放任政策 | fàng rèn zhèng cè | laissez-faire policy; non-interference |
| 土政策 | tǔ zhèng cè | local policy; regional regulations |
| 策勒县 | Cè lè Xiàn | Qira, a county in Hotan City 和田市[He2 tian2 Shi4], Xinjiang |
| 国策 | guó cè | a national policy |
| 策马 | cè mǎ | to urge on a horse using a whip or spurs |
| 策动 | cè dòng | to conspire; to plot (a rebellion, crime etc); to machinate; to spur on; to urge action |
| 上策 | shàng cè | best course of action; best policy |
| 两手策略 | liǎng shǒu cè lüè | two-pronged strategy |