計

See also: 计

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

計 (radical 149 言+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜口十 (YRJ), four-corner 0460₀, composition ⿰訁十)

1. plan, plot
2. stratagem
3. scheme
4. accountant

Descendants

• け

References

• KangXi: page 1147, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35220
• Dae Jaweon: page 1613, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3937, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8A08

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Chinese

trad.		計
simp.		计

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 言 ‎(“say”) + 十 ‎(“all”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jì (ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai³, gei³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ki / kie
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kè / kì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): goi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gai³, gei³
    • Yale: gai, gei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai³, gei³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯³³/, /kei̯³³/
    • Note: gei3 - nonstandard.
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ki / kie
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi / gie
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi⁴ / gie⁴
    • IPA: /ki⁵⁵/, /ki̯e⁵⁵/
    • Note: ki - literary; kie - vernacular.
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kè / kì
    • Tâi-lô: kè / kì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kex, kix
    • IPA (Taipei): /ke¹¹/, /ki¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ke²¹/, /ki²¹/
    • Note: kè - vernacular; kì - literary.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: goi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kòi
    • IPA ^(key): /koi²¹³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 計
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕi⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕi⁵³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕi²¹/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕi⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕi⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡sz̩⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕi³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕi⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕi²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/ki⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/ke⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kɐi³³/
	Nanning	/kɐi³³/
	Hong Kong	/kɐi³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ke²¹/ /ki²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kiɛ²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ki³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/koi²¹³/ /ki²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ki³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kei^H/▼

Rime
Character	計
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古詣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/keiH/
Pan Wuyun	/keiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛjH/
Li Rong	/keiH/
Wang Li	/kieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤij-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kiːds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	計
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jì
Middle Chinese	‹ kejH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤij-s/
English	calculate
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	計
Reading #	1/1
No.	5835
Phonetic component	計
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	計
Old Chinese	/*kiːds/

Definitions

計

1. to calculate

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Japanese

Kanji

計

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

計 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji kei)

1. plan, total

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: けい (kei)
• On (unclassified): かい (kai)
• Kun: はかる (hakaru), はかりごと (hakarigoto)

Compounds

• 会計士 (かいけいし, kaikei-shi)
• 腕時計
• 計画
• 計画的
• 計算
• 計量
• 計上
• 計測
• 時計 (とけい, tokei)

Suffix

計 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji -kei)

1. -meter (measuring device)

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Korean

Hanja

計 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

計 (kế, kể, ké, kẻ, kê, kẽ)

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