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policy / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
strategic decision / decision-making / policy decision / to determine policy
HSK 6
countermeasure for dealing with a situation
HSK 7-9
stratagem
HSK 7-9
to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
HSK 7-9
lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *策* | 策* | *策
surname Ce
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *策* | 策* | *策
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
state policy
"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦
to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory) / to give advice (idiom)
Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty
a national policy
to urge (sb to do do sth) / to drive (sb to take an action)
to offer advice / to make a suggestion
foreign policy
wise policy / best policy
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
ostrich policy (sticking one's head in the sand, failing to acknowledge danger)
local policy / regional regulations
Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
closed-door policy
good-neighbor policy
good plan / good idea
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筞* | 筞* | *筞
variant of
strategy / policy / general plan / variant of 方冊|方册
one-China policy
of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom) / the best thing to do is leave
The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
the best policy / the best thing one can do in the circumstances
foreign policy
laissez-faire policy; non-interference
Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player
policy of nuclear intimidation
stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step
one-child policy
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筴* | 筴* | *筴
variant of
Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒


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