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策

Plan
Stroke count: 12

Readings

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JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 6Level 22

Verbs with «策»

策定する散策する

Meanings

  1. plan
  2. schemeRtK
  3. policy
    彼は正直は最良の策を信じなかった。He didn't believe that honesty is the best policy.tatoeba
    提示された４つの抑制策のうち最も効果があると思われるのが、「予防医療・健康増進活動の大充実」であろう。Out of the four policies that were suggested, I think the most effective one would be the "Improvement of Preventive Care and Health Promotion" policy.tatoeba
  4. step
  5. means
  1. measure
  2. stratagem

Homonyms

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Same reading (さく)
咲く · to bloom裂く · to tear作 · work (e.g. of art)柵 · fence

Popular Usage

対策

Radicals and components

Radical竹bamboo
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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bamboo (竹) · tree (木) · wood (木) · belt

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1019

Compound words

対策たいさく
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove
策定するさくていする
to formulation
国策こくさく
national policy
策定さくてい
formulation (of a plan, policy, etc.); decision; settling on
策略さくりゃく
stratagem; artifice; trick; ruse; scheme
散策さんさく
walking; strolling; roaming; wandering; exploring
施策しさく
policy; measure
政策せいさく
political measures; policy
得策とくさく
good policy; wise policy; best plan
方策ほうさく
plan; measure; means; scheme; policy
失策しっさく
blunder; slip; error; error
無策むさく
lack of policy; having no measures; lacking means
解決策かいけつさく
solution; solution strategy
苦肉の策くにくのさく
last resort; desperate measure taken under the pressure of necessity
悪策あくさく
poor policy
一策いっさく
idea
下策げさく
poor plan
画策かくさく
scheming
劃策かくさく
scheming
策謀さくぼう
strategy
拙策せっさく
poor policy
奸策かんさく
shrewd (dirty) trick
詭策きさく
ruse
救済策きゅうさいさく
relief measure

On Reading Examples

正直は最良の策だ、と私は信じている。さく
Honesty, I believe, is the best policy.tatoeba
正直は必ずしも最上の策とは限らない。さく
Honesty is not always the best policy.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は不注意のため途方もない失策をしてしまった。
As a result of his carelessness, he made a serious blunder.tatoeba
彼は新しい政策を決定していた。
He had decided on a new policy.tatoeba
彼は昇進を目指して策動している。
He is angling for promotion.tatoeba

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Plan, measure. 竹 (bamboo) + 朿 — bamboo sticks used to work out a plan.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 策

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step