计
to calculate / to compute / to count / to regard as important / to plan / ruse / meter / gauge
计 character breakdown
ten / 10
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
Characters with 计 as component
计
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 计
lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless / innumerable
see 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[san1 shi2 liu4 ji4 , zou3 wei2 shang4 ce4]
China Education and Research Network (CERNET) / abbr. to 中國教育網|中国教育网[Zhong1 guo2 Jiao4 yu4 Wang3]
the whole year must be planned for in the spring (idiom) / early planning is the key to success
make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom) / early morning is the golden time of the day
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems