策

See also: 筞

Translingual

Han character

策 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月 (HDB), four-corner 8890₂, composition ⿱⺮朿)

1. scheme, plan
2. to whip
3. urge

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26009
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2963, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7B56

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		策

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cè (ce⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caak³
• Min Nan (POJ): chhek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cè
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tseh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: caak³
    • Yale: chaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaak⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
    • Tâi-lô: tshik
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (策, reconstructed)
Character (策), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 初 (19) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 楚革切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɣɛk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰæk̚/	/t͡ʃʰɛk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɯæk̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɨjk̚/	/t͡ʃʰæk̚/	/t͡ʃʰɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (策, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
策								cè								‹ tsrhɛk ›								/*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek/								tablet, record
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
策					1765					朿					錫					0					策					/*sʰreːɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

策

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さく (saku)
• Kun: むち (muchi), つえ (tsue), かずとり (kazutori)

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Korean

Hanja

策 (chaek) (hangeul 책, revised chaek, McCune-Reischauer ch'aek, Yale chayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

策 (sách)

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