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U+8A08, 計
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A08

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜口十 (YRJ), four-corner 04600, composition )

Derived characters

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𧨻

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (say) + (all).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • gai3, gai3-2 - “plot”, “way to deal with something”;
  • gei3 - in 夥計伙计.
Note: gai5* - “plot”.
Note:
  • ki - literary;
  • kie - vernacular.
Note:
  • kè - literary;
  • kì/kòe - vernacular.
Note:
  • goi3 - vernacular;
  • gi3 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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 (Hokkien) /ke²¹/
/ki²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ki³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /koi²¹³/
/ki²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ki³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter kejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/keiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛjH/
Li
Rong
/keiH/
Wang
Li
/kieiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁij-s/
English calculate

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5835
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kiːds/

Definitions

  1. to calculate; to count
      ―  gai3 hei2 tiu4 sou3   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
      ―  shù yǐ bǎi   ―  to number in the hundreds
    幾多
    几多
    gai3 haa5 nei go3 jyut6 jung6 zo2 gei2 do1 cin4-2
    to calculate how much was spent this month
  2. to amount to
    學生520
    学生520
    Quán xiào yǒu xuéshēng 520 rén.
    The school has 520 students in total.
  3. (chiefly in the negative) to consider; to be concerned with
    後果后果  ―  hòuguǒ  ―  to not be concerned about consequences
  4. to plan; to plot
  5. plan; plot; scheme
      ―  zhòng  ―  to fall into a trap
    反間反间  ―  fǎnjiàn  ―  stratagem of letting the enemy's own spy sow discord in the enemy camp
  6. (Cantonese) solution; way to deal with something
      ―  nam2 gai3-2   ―  to think of a way to deal with something
      ―  mou5 gai3-2   ―  one can't do anything about it
  7. (Cantonese) to regard as; to consider
  8. gauge
    安培安培  ―  ānpéi  ―  ammeter
  9. (Hokkien) all
  10. a surname
      ―  Liùqí  ―  Ji Liuqi (Ming and Qing dynasty historian who authored the histories 明季北略 and 明季南略)

Synonyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
けい
Grade: 2
kan'on

From Middle Chinese (MC kejH).

Pronunciation

Noun

(けい) (kei

  1. plan
  2. total

Suffix

(けい) (-kei

  1. -meter (measuring device)

Prefix

(けい) (kei-

  1. a total of…, in total

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (sel gye))

  1. hanja form? of (count; calculation)
  2. hanja form? of (plan)
  3. hanja form? of (total)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: , kế
: Nôm readings: , , kẻ, kẽ, kế, kể

  1. chữ Hán form of kế (a plot; a scheme; a stratagem)
  2. chữ Nôm form of ((placed after the main verb) to obtain a share of something with someone)
  3. chữ Nôm form of kẻ ((pejorative) individual, person, man)
  4. chữ Nôm form of kể (to tell)