Kanji N1

策: scheme, plan, policy

策 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning scheme, plan, policy, written with 12 strokes. It is read サク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 政策 (せいさく, political measures) and 対策 (たいさく, measure).

策

Meanings

  • scheme
  • plan
  • policy
  • step
  • means
Strokes12
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#209 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • サク

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 策

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 政策せいさく

    political measures; policy

    JLPT N1
  • 対策たいさく

    measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan

    JLPT N2
  • 方策ほうさく

    plan; measure; means; scheme; policy

    JLPT N1
  • 策さく

    plan; policy; means; measure; stratagem; scheme

    JLPT N1
  • 策定さくてい

    formulation (of a plan, policy, etc.); decision

  • 施策しさく

    policy; measure

  • 失策しっさく

    blunder; slip; error

  • 得策とくさく

    good policy; wise policy; best plan

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.