(jì) - to count, to plan; plan in Mandarin
jìTraditional: 计
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Translation
to count, to plan; plan
Word origin
An ideographic character (traditional 計): the speech radical 讠combines with 十 (shí, ten), suggesting counting aloud, hence to count and to plan.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 十 (shí, ten)
Stroke order
计
Examples
。
Our plans have changed.
。
He is working out these numbers.
，！
Mate, another round!
。
He is carefully calculating the cost.
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Let us work this out together.
计 (jì) means to count or to plan. It powers 计划 (plan) and 计算 (to calculate), and also appears in 伙计 (mate, buddy), where its original sense of reckoning shades into camaraderie.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 计.
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