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- 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
Trad. 孫策
- Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty
Trad. 決策
- strategic decision
- decision-making
- policy decision
- to determine policy
Trad. 策劃
- to plot
- to scheme
- to bring about
- to engineer
- planning
- producer
- planner
- Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[He2 tian2 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Trad. 策動
- to conspire
- to plot (a rebellion, crime etc)
- to machinate
- to spur on
- to urge action
- to instigate (rebellion etc)
- incitement (e.g. to desertion within opposing camp)
Trad. 策問
- essay on policy in question and answer form used in imperial exams
Trad. 策試
- imperial exam involving writing essay on policy 策論|策论[ce4 lun4]
Trad. 策論
- essay on current affairs submitted to the emperor as policy advice (old)
Trad. 戰國策
- "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2]
Trad. 策勒縣
- Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[He2 tian2 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang
- the best policy
- the best thing one can do in the circumstances
Trad. 乘堅策肥
- to live in luxury
- lit. to ride a solid carriage pulled by fat horses
Trad. 新聞策劃
- communication management; public relations
Trad. 束手無策
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
Trad. 出謀劃策
- to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory)
- to give advice (idiom)
- Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
- (idiom) to act in concert; to pool ideas and efforts
Trad. 權宜之策
- stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure
- makeshift plan
- interim step
Trad. 鴕鳥政策
- ostrich policy (sticking one's head in the sand, failing to acknowledge danger)
Trad. 核威懾政策
- policy of nuclear intimidation
Trad. 舉賢良對策
- Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒
- Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player
Trad. 獨生子女政策
- one-child policy
Trad. 一個中國政策
- one-China policy
Trad. 上有政策，下有對策
- The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
Trad. 三十六計，走為上策
- of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom)
- the best thing to do is leave