漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
策: scheme, plan
Also: policy, step, means
JLPT N112 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
- 竹bamboo(meaning)
- 朿(sound)
竹 carries the meaning · 朿 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
サクsaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 策さくplan, policy
- 策略さくりゃくscheme, tactic, strategy
- 策士さくしintriguer, tactician, schemer
- 対策たいさくcounter-plan, counter-measure
- 政策せいさくgovernment policy
- 方策ほうさくplan, policy
- 善後策ぜんごさくremedy, countermeasure
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)竹 bamboo (meaning) + 朿 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 策 (rev. 93934812), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bamboo (⺮) + a thorny branch/whip. Originally referred to a "bamboo" whip used to guide horses, eventually evolving to mean a "plan" or "strategy" used to guide a project.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side策 scheme · 朿
vs筒 cylinder · 同In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cè
Same form: 策 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 策 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 策 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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