Chinese symbol for “scheming”
心计
xīn jì
Traditional: 心計
scheming; shrewdness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scheming is 心计 (xīn jì), defined as: scheming; shrewdness.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “scheming”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 机械 (機械) | jī xiè | machine; machinery |
| 工于心计 (工於心計) | gōng yú xīn jì | scheming; calculating |
| 心术 (心術) | xīn shù | designs; schemes |
| 处心积虑 (處心積慮) | chǔ xīn jī lǜ | to plot actively (idiom); scheming |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 心计.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
| 关心 (關心) | guān xīn | to be concerned about; to care about |
| 核心 | hé xīn | core; nucleus |
| 开心 (開心) | kāi xīn | to feel happy; to rejoice |
| 心里 (心裡) | xīn li | chest; heart; mind |
| 计划 (計劃) | jì huà | plan; project |
| 设计 (設計) | shè jì | to design; to plan; design; plan |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scheming”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.