计 jì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 十 ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
计算
jìsuàn
to calculate
Characters in this word
算 suàn
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 具 tool, implement
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我会计算钱。 Wǒ huì jìsuàn qián. I can calculate money.
- 请你计算一下。 Qǐng nǐ jìsuàn yíxià. Please calculate it.
- 他在计算时间。 Tā zài jìsuàn shíjiān. He is calculating the time.