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核算

hé suàn

2-character word

What 核算 means

1. to calculate
2. accounting

The characters in 核算

• 核hépit; stone; nucleus
• 算suànto calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid…

Example sentences

• 若老师要筹划一趟假期旅行或类似需要比价、核算费用的事，他便会借助学生的本领。有时，妻子想要一个新果盘，或丈夫想要一把新裁纸刀；许多人有儿子需要听睡前短故事，或有女儿的洋娃娃必须穿上最时髦的衣裳；凡此种种，老师一律让学生替他代劳。
  If the teacher is to plan out a vacation or something similar requiring one to compare prices and figure out what it would cost, it is the pupils' skills he would exploit. Sometimes, the wife may be wishing for a new fruit bowl, or perhaps the husband is looking for a new letter opener. Many have sons that require a short bedside story or daughters with dolls that must be clad in clothing of utmost fashionability; all this, the teacher makes the pupils make for him.

Sounds the same

Read hé suàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 合算worthwhile; to be a good deal; to be a bargain