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Mythic Mandarin

策 (Cè): meaning and stroke order

策 (Cè) means surname Ce, policy, plan, scheme, bamboo slip for writing (old), to whip (a horse).

策

Simplified
策
Traditional
策, 筞, 筴
Pinyin
Cè

Stroke order of 策

策

  • Cè surname Ce
  • cè policy; plan
  • cè variant of 策[ce4]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 筞

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 策

  1. Cè
    • surname Ce
  2. cè
    • policy
    • 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
  3. cè Traditional 筞
    • variant of 策[ce4]
  4. cè Traditional 筴
    • variant of 策[ce4]

Radical and structure

策
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 12 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 朿 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 策

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).