Kanji1 / 12
策 kanji
scheme, plan, policy, step, means
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
サク
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
笧Words with 策
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —奸策shrewd (dirty) trick; sinister scheme (design); sly art
- —警策Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen); horsewhip
- —配策routing (cables, esp. in vehicles)
- —詭策ruse; ploy; trick; chicanery; booby trap
- —救済策relief measure
- —具体策concrete plan
- —次善策plan B; alternative plan; workaround
- —不得策unwise plan; bad policy; inexpediency
- —予防策preventive measure; precautionary measure
- —善後策remedial measure; relief measure; corrective measure; countermeasure; remedy
- —応急策emergency or temporary measure
- —対抗策countermeasure; counter-measure
- —対応策countermeasure; counter-measure
- —弥縫策stopgap measure; temporary expedient
- —策源地strategic base
- —積極策positive plan; constructive policy
- —離間策scheme to provoke discord (e.g. between countries); alienating measure
- —強硬策hard-line policy; tough measure
- —懐柔策measure to win someone over to one's side
- —支援策support measures; assistance measures; support plan