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Chinese

計

jì

to calculate; to count

Ideogrammatic compound 會意
HSK 2
TOCFL 7
radical 言
9 strokes

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Origin

Shuowen: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 言 (“say”) + 十 (“all”).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

ideaChinese言 “to say; to speak; to talk”
ideaChinese十 “ten”

Words built on it: 計劃

Meanings

character

to calculate; to count
to amount to
to consider; to be concerned with
to plan; to plot
plan; plot; scheme
solution; way to deal with something

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

計：會也。筭也。从言从十。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

核算。例：核計、論件計酬、數以萬計
謀劃、打算、盤算。例：計劃、商計、設計
策略、方法。例：妙計、好計、緩兵之計
測量或計算度量、數量的儀器。例：溫度計、體溫計
姓。

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 計 was written 字形演變

Qin slips
秦系簡牘
Qin
Small seal
說文小篆
Shuowen, c. 100 CE
Regular
楷書
since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
Written form — n/a
Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
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