策 (Kangxi radical 118,竹+6, 12 strokes,cangjie input竹木月 (HDB),four-corner8890₂,composition⿱𥫗朿)

• 憡,㩍,鏼,𣽤,𢿸,𥴹,𭬂

• 筞(Variant form)

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sʰreːɡ): semantic 竹(“bamboo”) + phonetic 朿(OC*sʰeɡs).

"to whip"

Originally敇.

Etymologically the same word as冊 (OC*sʰreːɡ), with an original meaning of "bamboo slips" (Schuessler, 2007).

策

1. plan;scheme;strategy
2. (literary) toplan; toscheme
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tocalculate; toestimate
4. (historical)bamboo orwoodenstrips used forwriting on in ancient China

   Synonyms:冊 /册(cè),簡策 /简策,簡冊 /简册(jiǎncè)

5. (historical) a kind ofemperor'sedict
6. (historical) a type ofessay in ancient China, used in imperial examinations where questions on political or economic affairs were set
7. (historical) a kind ofcomputingtool in ancient China, on which themultiplication table was written for multiplication, division or extracting the square root during the Qing dynasty
8. (historical)spur
9. (alt. form敇)(literary) tospur; towhip; tourge with ahorsewhip
10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) todrive; tourge
11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)number;value
12. (literary)cane;walking stick
13. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tolean on; torest onsupport
14. (calligraphy)upwardhorizontalstroke(the fifth of theEight Principles of Yong)
15. (Mainland China Hokkien) toconfer; toconsult; tocoordinate; todiscuss

    策價錢／策价钱[Hokkien]  ― chhek kè-chîⁿ[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to discuss the price

16. (Chineseastronomy)Gamma Cassiopeiae
17. asurname

• “策”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “策”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page267.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. scheme;plan;policy;step;means

• Go-on:しゃく(shaku)
• Kan-on:さく(saku,Jōyō)
• Kun:ふだ(fuda,策)、ふみ(fumi)、むち(muchi,策)、つえ(tsue,策)、かずとり(kazutori)、はかりごと(hakarigoto,策)
• Nanori:かず(kazu)、つか(tsuka)、もり(mori)

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FromMiddle Chinese策(tsrheak).

• (Tokyo)さく[sàkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1][2]
• (Tokyo)さく[sáꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠kɯ̟]

策(さく)• (saku) 

1. plan;policy

   正(しょう)直(じき)は決(けっ)して最(さい)上(じょう)の策(さく)ではない。

   Shōjiki wa kesshite saijō nosaku de wa nai.

   Honesty is never the bestpolicy.

2. the fifth of theEight Principles of Yong

• 永(えい)字(じ)八(はっ)法(ぽう)(eiji happō,“theEight Principles of Yong”)

• 側(そく)(soku,“the first of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 勒(ろく)(roku,“the second of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 努(ど)(do,“the third of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 趯(てき)(teki,“the fourth of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 掠(りゃく)(ryaku,“the sixth of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 啄(たく)(taku,“the seventh of theEight Principles of Yong”)
• 磔(たく)(taku,“the eighth of theEight Principles of Yong”)

• 策(さく)を講(こう)ずる(saku o kōzuru)
• 策(さく)を施(ほどこ)す(saku o hodokosu)

策(さく)• (-saku) 

1. plan,policy

• “^△策”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[t͡ɕʰɛk̚] ~ [t͡ɕʰe̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul:[책/첵]

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

策

策• (chaek) (hangeul책,revised chaek,McCune–Reischauer ch'aek,Yale chayk)

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策:Hán Nôm readings:sách

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