算

Stroke order

算 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹月山廿 (HBUT), four-corner 8844₆, composition ⿱𥫗𥃲 or ⿱𥬥廾)

• 𱕋, 𤀤, 𥳪, 𣝶, 𨮰, 𬭾, 㔍, 𣀔, 𰕜, 𣃍, 𣫑, 𣰚, 𪧯, 匴, 𭍵

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

Historical forms of the character 算
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

In current form, 竹 (“bamboo”) + 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. Perhaps related to the top component of 學, hence to 爻.

Similar but unrelated to 具.

It has been compared with Tibetan གཤོར (gshor, “to count, to measure, to weigh”) by Gong (1995).

算

1. to count; to calculate; to figure
2. to plan; to arrange; to design
3. to guess; to estimate; to approximate
4. to regard as; to consider
5. to count; to be of significance
6. to let it pass; to give up
7. (Puxian Min) to think (to conceive of something or someone)
8. (Puxian Min) to miss (to feel the absence of someone or something)
9. finally; eventually
10. alternative form of 筭 (suàn, “ancient device for counting numbers”)
11. (Guanzhong Mandarin) while

    伢算說算笑／伢算说算笑   ―  niǎ suān shě suān xiāo   ―  He speaks as he laughs

12. (Hong Kong) ratio between two currencies

    日元兌港元跌穿六算。
    日元兑港元跌穿六算。

    jat⁶ jyun⁴ deoi³ gong² jyun⁴ dit³ cyun¹ luk⁶ syun³.

    The exchange rate between Japanese Yen and Hong Kong Dollars has dropped below the ratio of 1 JPY to 0.06 HKD

• (to calculate):

• (to plan):

• (to guess):

• (to regard):

• (to think):

• (to miss):

• → Lü: ᦉᦸᧃᧈ (ṡoan¹)

• “算”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. Counting, calculation

• Go-on: さん (san, Jōyō)、せん (sen)
• Kan-on: さん (san, Jōyō)、せん (sen)
• Kan’yō-on: そん (son)
• Kun: かぞえる (kazoeru, 算える)、かず (kazu, 算)

From Middle Chinese 算 (MC swanX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

算

Wikisource

算 (eumhun 셈 산 (sem san))

1. hanja form^? of 산 (“to count; to calculate”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

算: Hán Nôm readings: toán, toan

1. chữ Hán form of toán (“mathematics”)