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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Cè | Ce4
English translation
surname Ce
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
variant of [cè]
to urge, to whip; method, plan, policy

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

zhú

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

bamboo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⺮朿

Semantic compound

zhú

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhú represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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船长 chuán zhǎng 乡绅 xiāng shēn zài 房舱 fáng cāng 商量 shāngliang 对策 duìcè .

The captain, the squire, and I were talking matters over in the cabin.

挥鞭策马 cè mǎ 前行 qián xíng .

He urged the horse on with a whip.

shēn kùn 巴黎 Bā lí ,束手无策 shù shǒu wú cè .

He was stranded in Paris.

挥鞭, 刚好 gāng hǎo gǎn zài 其他 qítā 骑手 qí shǒu qián 到达 dàodá 终点 zhōngdiǎn .

Whipping his horse on, he reached the finishing post just ahead of the other riders.

对于 duìyú 我们 wǒmen 数不 Qīng de 问题 wèntí 他们 tā men 束手无策 shù shǒu wú cè .

They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
政策 zhèngcè policy政策 zhèngcè
策略 cèlüè strategy策略 cèlüè
策划 cèhuà to plot策劃
决策 juécè strategic decision決策
对策 duìcè countermeasure for dealing with a situation對策
policy
束手无策 shù shǒu wú cè lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis束手無策
策划人 cè huà rén sponsor策劃人
鞭策 biāncè to spur on鞭策 biāncè
计策 jì cè stratagem計策
出谋划策 chū móu huà cè to give advice (idiom)出謀劃策
决策者 jué cè zhě policymaker決策者
失策 shī cè to blunder失策 shī cè
良策 liáng cè good plan良策 liáng cè
国策 guó cè a national policy國策
献策 xiàn cè to offer advice獻策
策动 cè dòng to conspire策動
策反 cè fǎn to instigate (rebellion etc)策反 cè fǎn
策应 cè yìng to support策應
策马 cè mǎ to urge on a horse using a whip or spurs策馬

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