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总计

zǒngjì

to total, to sum up

A hand gathers three stacks of coins into one tall stack
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Characters in this word

总 zǒng

Strokes
9
Radical
心 — heart
Made of
丷 horns 口 mouth 心 heart
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

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
More about the character 计

Example phrases

  • 本次活动共有三百人报名,总计收取费用六万元。 Běn cì huódòng gòng yǒu sānbǎi rén bàomíng, zǒngjì shōuqǔ fèiyòng liù wàn yuán. A total of 300 people signed up for this event, and the fees collected totalled 60,000 yuan.
  • 这个月的水电费总计三百多元。 Zhège yuè de shuǐdiànfèi zǒngjì sānbǎi duō yuán. This month's water and electricity bills come to more than three hundred yuan in total.
  • 我们把每个人的分数加起来,总计是九十分。 Wǒmen bǎ měi gè rén de fēnshù jiā qǐlai, zǒngjì shì jiǔshí fēn. We added up everyone's scores, and the total came to ninety points.

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