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策

cè

HSK 6 Character

What 策 means

1. policy
2. plan
3. scheme
4. bamboo slip for writing (old)
5. to whip (a horse)
6. to encourage
7. riding crop with sharp spines (old)
8. essay written for the imperial examinations (old)
9. upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy

Other readings

策 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Cèsurname Ce
• cèvariant of {策|cè}
• cèvariant of {策|cè}

Example sentences

• 她换了策略。
  She changed her tactics.
• 他在策划部工作。
  He works in the planning section.
• 希望不是一种策略。
  Xīwàng bù shì yīzhǒng cèlüè.
  Hope is not a strategy.
• 我想成为决策的人。
  Wǒ xiǎng chéngwéi juécè de rén.
  I want to be the one who decides.
• 工作政策是个失败。
  The employment policy is a failure.
• 你不能回避官方政策
  You can't avoid office politics.

Words starting with 策

• 策略cè lüèstrategy; tactics; crafty; adroit
• 策划cè huàto plot; to scheme; to bring about
• 策划人cè huà rénsponsor; plotter; schemer
• 策马cè mǎto urge on a horse using a whip or spurs
• 策动cè dòngto conspire; to plot (a rebellion, crime etc); to machinate
• 策反cè fǎnto instigate (rebellion etc); incitement (e.g. to desertion within opposing camp)
• 策问cè wènessay on policy in question and answer form used in imperial exams
• 策展cè zhǎnto curate
• 策应cè yìngto support by coordinated action
• 策论cè lùnessay on current affairs submitted to the emperor as policy advice (old)
• 策进cè jìn(formal) to promote; to further
• 策士cè shìstrategist; counsellor on military strategy
• 策展人cè zhǎn réncurator
• 策源地cè yuán dìplace of origin; source (of a war or a social movement)
• 策试cè shìimperial exam involving writing essay on policy 策论
• 策励cè lìto encourage; to urge; to impel
• 策谋cè móustratagem (political or military); trick
• 策勒县Cè lè XiànQira, a county in Hotan City 和田市
• 策勒Cè lèsee 策勒县
• 策画cè huàvariant of 策划

Words containing 策

• 政策zhèng cèpolicy
• 决策jué cèstrategic decision; decision-making; policy decision
• 对策duì cècountermeasure for dealing with a situation
• 鞭策biān cèto spur on; to urge on; to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
• 束手无策shù shǒu wú cèlit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom)…
• 决策者jué cè zhěpolicymaker
• 国策guó cèa national policy
• 出谋划策chū móu huà cèto put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory); to give advice (idiom)
• 计策jì cèstratagem
• 良策liáng cègood plan; good idea
• 失策shī cèto blunder; to miscalculate; miscalculation
• 方策fāng cèstrategy; policy; general plan
• 战国策Zhàn guó cè"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)…
• 上上之策shàng shàng zhī cèthe best policy; the best thing one can do in the circumstances
• 国家政策guó jiā zhèng cèstate policy
• 外交政策wài jiāo zhèng cèforeign policy
• 对外政策duì wài zhèng cèforeign policy
• 放任政策fàng rèn zhèng cèlaissez-faire policy; non-interference
• 土政策tǔ zhèng cèlocal policy; regional regulations
• 两手策略liǎng shǒu cè lüètwo-pronged strategy
• 独生子女政策dú shēng zǐ nǚ zhèng cèone-child policy
• 群策群力qún cè qún lì(idiom) to act in concert; to pool ideas and efforts
• 善策shàn cèwise policy; best policy
• 新闻策划xīn wén cè huàcommunication management; public relations

Characters that look like 策

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 鼠shǔ(bound form) rat; mouse
• 巢cháonest
• 煎jiānto pan fry; to sauté
• 粟sùmillet; (metonym) grain
• 蓖bìthe castor-oil plant
• 萸yúused in 茱萸

Sounds the same

Read cè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厕(bound form) restroom; toilet; lavatory; (literary) to be mingled with; to be involved in
• 测to survey; to measure; to conjecture
• 册book; booklet; classifier for books
• 侧the side; to incline towards; to lean
• 恻sorrowful
• 畟sharp
• 茦pointed grass blade; to prick
• 荝plant genus Aconitum, aka monkshood or wolf's bane (used as poison and medicine)…
• 䇲variant of 策