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On’yomi
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Kun’yomi
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Radical
竹 Bamboo (Kangxi 118)

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 洋 (Western Style), less common than 鉄 (Iron).

Bamboo (竹) sticks above an eye (目) resting on a stool (几) — an abacus made of bamboo rods, watched by careful eyes, used to calculate.

In words

算盤 そろばん abacusN2
算数 さんすう arithmeticN2
予算 よさん estimate,budgetN3

算 is rank 690 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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