鞭策 biāncè▶ thúc đẩy

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hoạch định chính sách
• 对策biện pháp đối phó
• 政策chính sách
• 策划lên kế hoạch; ấp ủ; âm mưu
• 策略chiến thuật; chính sách
• 鞭炮pháo

鞭策 is pronounced biāncè and means “thúc đẩy”. 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.