會計

See also: 会計 and 会计

Chinese
 
to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting
 
to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (會計) 會 計
simp. (会计) 会 计

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 会計 (かいけい) (kaikei, “accountant”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 會計／会计 (kuàijì, “to do accounting work”).

Noun

會計

  1. accounting; accountancy
    會計事務所 / 会计事务所  ―  kuàijì shìwùsuǒ  ―  accounting firm
  2. accountant
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Attestable in Classical Chinese.

Verb

會計

  1. (Classical Chinese) to examine and calculate
  2. (Classical Chinese) to do accounting work
  3. (Classical Chinese, of the Son of Heaven) to give out rewards to vassals based on merit
  4. (Classical Chinese) to plan; to manage
Synonyms

Proper noun

會計

  1. (historical) Alternative name for 會稽／会稽 (Kuàijī, “Mount Kuaiji”).
  2. (historical) Alternative name for 會稽／会稽 (Kuàijī, “Kuaiji (place name)”).
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