計 — measure, plan, meter

けい計 measure

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes math

U+8A08 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #228 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #337 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

measure
plan
meter
plot

word

けい kei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

計(けい) kei total 計(けい) 画(かく) keikaku plan 会(かい) 計(けい) kaikei accounting 合(ごう) 計(けい) goukei total 時(と) 計(けい) tokei clock 計(けい) 算(さん) keisan calculation 計(けい) 上(じょう) keijou appropriation 家(か) 計(けい) kakei household finances

はか haka Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

計(はか) る hakaru to measure

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

じゅう十 ten #24

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 言 (words) gives the meaning. 十 (jū, ten) provides phonetic element and concept of counting. To measure or plan.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#149 言 speech