鞭策 biāncè▶ mendorong

Stroke order

鞭策 is written in 30 strokes across 2 characters.

• 鞭 — 18 strokes
• 策 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. to spur on
2. to urge on
3. to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)

Related words

• 决策membuat kebijakan
• 对策tindakan balasan
• 政策kebijakan
• 策划rencana; menetaskan; merencanakan
• 策略taktik; kebijakan
• 鞭炮petasan

鞭策 is pronounced biāncè and means “mendorong”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 鞭策 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.