算

See also: 祘

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

In current form, 竹 + 目 + 廾. The 目 portion may have originally represented counting rods (or possibly an abacus, although the character is believed to predate its invention). Such rods were typically made from bamboo.

Han character

算 (radical 118 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹月山廿 (HBUT), four-corner 8844₆, composition ⿱⺮⿱目廾)

1. count, calculate, figure
2. plan

References

• KangXi: page 888, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26146
• Dae Jaweon: page 1315, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2981, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7B97

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Cantonese

Hanzi

算 (Jyutping syun3, Yale syun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

算

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. Counting, calculation

Readings

• On: さん (san)
• Kun: かぞえる (kazoeru), かず (kazu)

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Korean

Hanja

算 (hangeul 산 (san), revised san, McCune-Reischauer san, Yale san)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

算 (Pinyin suàn (suan4), Wade-Giles suan⁴)

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Compounds

• 算了

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Vietnamese

Han character

算 (toán, toan)

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