policy

surname Ce; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy; variant of 策[ce4]

bamboo (⺮) + sound cè (朿) = written plan or policy

A bamboo strip was the ancient writing surface for recording plans and policies. 朿 mainly gives the sound cè; the bamboo radical carries the material meaning.

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BambooSemantic
A thorny spinePhonetic

我们需要一个好的略来解决这个问题。

wǒ men xū yào yī gè hǎo de cè lüè lái jiě jué zhè gè wèn tí 。

We need a good strategy to solve this problem.

政府出台了新的政来帮助小企业发展。

zhèng fǔ chū tái le xīn de zhèng cè lái bāng zhù xiǎo qǐ yè fā zhǎn 。

The government introduced new policies to help small businesses develop.

Words with 策

闭关政策

bì guān zhèng cè

closed-door policy

驱策

qū cè

to urge (sb to do do sth)

鸵鸟政策

tuó niǎo zhèng cè

ostrich policy (sticking one's head in the sand, failing to acknowledge danger)

一个中国政策

yī gè zhōng guó zhèng cè

one-China policy

三光政策

sān guāng zhèng cè

Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII

三十六计,走为上策

sān shí liù jì , zǒu wéi shàng cè

of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom)

上上之策

shàng shàng zhī cè

the best policy

上有政策,下有对策

shàng yǒu zhèng cè , xià yǒu duì cè

The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

乘坚策肥

chéng jiān cè féi

to live in luxury

两手策略

liǎng shǒu cè lüè

two-pronged strategy

出谋划策

chū móu huà cè

to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory)

善策

shàn cè

wise policy

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