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策 — 12 strokes / Radical「竹」

道
5Elementary year 6 / 12 strokes / Radical「竹」
On
サクさく · saku
Kun
—
Meaning
plan; policy; scheme

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

竹 "bamboo" plus 朿 "thorn"; first a bamboo tally or whip, then the plan written on it — "scheme, policy."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onサクさくsaku策略さくりゃく政策せいさく対策たいさく

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 対策たいさく

    countermeasure

  • 政策せいさく

    policy

More words with this kanji

  • 策さく
  • 籌策ちゅうさく

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

かぜの対策(たいさく)を考(かんが)える。

We think about measures against colds.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

対策政策策対facing政govern…筋muscle簡simple竹bamboo竺thick竽an anc…乍while作to mak…柞a kind…柵fence削cut
CompoundRadicalReading

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)