策
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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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 竹 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 策
- Common rank
- #1,194
- Unicode
- U+7B56
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Formation & memory
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How 策 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ meaning “bamboo” + 朿 sound ()
Components ⺮ 朿
How to remember it
strategy · Heisig RSH #792
竹 bamboo + thorn
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 策
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上上之策 | the best policy; the best thing one can do in the circumstances | |
| 上有政策，下有对策 | The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around t… | |
| 一个中国政策 | one-China policy | |
| 三十六计，走为上策 | of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom); the best thing to do is … | |
| 独生子女政策 | one-child policy | |
| 国家政策 | state policy | |
| 三光政策 | Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII | |
| 外交政策 | foreign policy | |
| 对外政策 | foreign policy | |
| 战国策 | "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), p… | |
| 策源地 | place of origin; source (of a war or a social movement) | |
| 群策群力 | (idiom) to act in concert; to pool ideas and efforts | |
| 放任政策 | laissez-faire policy; non-interference | |
| 土政策 | local policy; regional regulations | |
| 策勒县 | Qira, a county in Hotan City 和田市[He2 tian2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 国策 | a national policy | |
| 策马 | to urge on a horse using a whip or spurs | |
| 策动 | to conspire; to plot (a rebellion, crime etc); to machinate; to spur on; to urge action | |
| 上策 | best course of action; best policy | |
| 两手策略 | two-pronged strategy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 朿 — compare how they read.