会 (kuài): accounting

Meanings

1 accounting
2 to reckon accounts

Characters

会

kuài

accounting

Examples

她是一名会计师。

Tā shì yì míng kuàijìshī.

She is an accountant.

会计是一个重要的职业。

Kuàijì shì yí gè zhòngyào de zhíyè.

Accounting is an important profession.

Tips

mistakes

The kuài reading of 会 is bound — it appears only inside 会计 (accounting / accountant) and its close derivatives like 会计师 (CPA) and 注册会计师 (certified public accountant). For meetings, ability, or future tense, 会 is always huì. If you see 会 directly followed by 计 in an accounting context, switch to kuài; otherwise default to huì.

Components

radical

人 rén

person

Person radical (Kangxi 9) at the top, with arms outstretched into the wide ∧-roof. 会 is grouped under 人 because meetings are gatherings of people; the same human-roof silhouette appears in 今 (now), 全 (whole), and 命 (life).

phonetic

云 yún

cloud; to say

Phonetic — 云 drifted irregularly to huì in this character. Simplified 会 was reformed from traditional 會, which had a more complex middle stack. The modern 云 below is a simplifier's substitution that gives a faint 'cloud of voices' image — fitting for a meeting where people gather and speak.