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策

cè
noun #13,651

Meanings

  1. 1 plan
  2. 2 scheme
  3. 3 strategy
  4. 4 whip

Examples

HSK 6
政府的新政策得到了广泛支持。
Zhèngfǔ de xīn zhèngcè dédào le guǎngfàn zhīchí.
The government's new policy has received broad support.
HSK 6
我们得想出新的策略来对付竞争者。
Wǒmen děi xiǎngchū xīnde cèlüè lái duìfu jìngzhēngzhě.
We need to come up with a new strategy to deal with the competitors.
HSK 7-9
古代皇帝会在竹简上颁布策书。
Gǔdài huángdì huì zài zhújiǎn shàng bānbù cèshū.
In ancient times, the emperor would issue policy edicts on bamboo strips.

Tips

memory
⺮ (bamboo) - strategies written on bamboo slips.

Components

radical
⺮ zhú
bamboo (radical form of 竹)
Bamboo-cap radical on top - short stalks with drooping leaves, the top form of 竹. Carries the meaning of 策: originally a bamboo riding-whip, then by extension a bamboo writing strip used for memorials, plans, and policies. The leap from whip to policy went through court documents emperors issued on bamboo strips. Family: 笔 brush, 简 slip, 篇 chapter.
phonetic
朿 cì
thorn
Bottom 朿 supplies the sound - cì shifting to cè, a regular tone-and-final change. 朿 itself pictures a thorny stem, and the prickling imagery faintly reinforces the whip sense of early 策. Today 朿 lives on mainly as the phonetic in 刺 stab and 棘 thorny - all sharp-poke characters sharing the cì root.

Stroke Order

策 cè