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策

策

See also: 筞

Translingual

Han character

策 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月 (HDB), four-corner 88902, composition ⿱⺮朿)

  1. scheme, plan
  2. to whip
  3. urge

References

  • KangXi: page 883, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26009
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2963, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7B56

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 策

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
債 *ʔsreːɡs, *ʔsreːɡ
積 *ʔseɡs, *ʔseɡ
刺 *sʰeɡs, *sʰeɡ
莿 *sʰeːɡs, *raːds
刾 *sʰeɡs
朿 *sʰeɡs
漬 *zeɡs
耫 *zraːd, *zreːɡ
嘖 *ʔsraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ, *zreːɡ
梀 *sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
捒 *sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
幘 *ʔsreːɡ
簀 *ʔsreːɡ
嫧 *ʔsreːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sʰeɡ
謮 *ʔsreːɡ
責 *ʔsreːɡ
皟 *sʰreːɡ
憡 *sʰreːɡ
策 *sʰreːɡ
筴 *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
拺 *sʰreːɡ, *sreːɡ
賾 *zreːɡ
鰿 *zreːɡ, *ʔseɡ
擌 *sreːɡ
蹟 *ʔseɡ
襀 *ʔseɡ
磧 *sʰeɡ
洓 *sʰeɡ
績 *ʔseːɡ
勣 *ʔseːɡ
樍 *ʔseːɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 策
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰɤ⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰɤ⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰə²¹³/
/ʈ͡ʂʰei²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰə⁵⁵/
/ʈ͡ʂʰe⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sʰei²¹/
Xining /t͡sʰɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰə/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰɤ²¹³/
/t͡sʰei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰe³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰɛ²¹/
Kunming /t͡sʰə³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰəʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡sʰɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰaʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡sʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰəʔ⁵/
/t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰɛʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰa⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰə²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰet̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰak̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰak̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰak̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰeʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sek̚⁵/
/sɛ⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 策
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 楚革切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 che
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 策
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrhɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek/
English tablet, record

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 策
Reading # 1/1
No. 1765
Phonetic
component		 朿
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 策
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰreːɡ/

Definitions

策

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

策

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. scheme; plan; policy; step; means

Readings

Noun

策 ‎(hiragana さく, romaji saku)

  1. plan; policy
    正直は決して最上の策ではない。
    Shoujiki wa kesshite saijou no saku dewa nai.
    Honesty is never the best policy.

Derived Terms

  • 策を講ずる
  • 策を施す

Suffix

策 ‎(hiragana さく, romaji -saku)

  1. plan; policy

Korean

Hanja

策 • ‎(chaek) (hangeul 책, revised chaek, McCune-Reischauer ch'aek, Yale chayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

策 (sách)

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