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计

jì

to count; to calculate; plan

A person moves the beads of a wooden abacus beside a scroll
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Character

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

  • 这项补贴只计家庭实际收入,不计一次性的救济款。 Zhè xiàng bǔtiē zhǐ jì jiātíng shíjì shōurù, bù jì yícìxìng de jiùjìkuǎn. This subsidy counts only a household's actual income and does not count one-off relief payments.
  • 这次旅行的费用,按人头计,每个人大约一千元。 Zhè cì lǚxíng de fèiyong, àn réntóu jì, měi ge rén dàyuē yìqiān yuán. The cost of this trip, counted per head, is about a thousand yuan each.
  • 他想出一条妙计,让大家都笑了起来。 Tā xiǎng chū yì tiáo miào jì, ràng dàjiā dōu xiào le qǐlái. He came up with a clever plan that made everyone laugh.

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