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First opened Sunday, October 5, 2025

方策

ほうさく

  • flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

plan, policy

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 方策

In a sentence

  • 正直(しょうじき)は最良(さいりょう)の方策(ほうさく)。

    Honesty is the best policy.

    Tatoeba #142884, translation #271679

  • 政府(せいふ)は国内(こくない)産業(さんぎょう)振興(しんこう)の方策(ほうさく)を講(こう)じた。

    The government has taken measures to promote domestic industry.

    Tatoeba #143098, translation #271470

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese
Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Also read ほうさく

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 方策This word

    plan, policy

    ほうさく flat (heiban)

  • 豊作

    abundant harvest, bumper crop

    ほうさく flat (heiban)

Also opened on October 5

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