筹
chóu HSK7

chip

筹 (籌) chóu
plan verb
to plan, prepare, or raise money for a specific purpose

这笔工程的启动资金还没筹齐。

zhè bǐ gōng​chéng de qǐ​dòng zī​jīn hái méi chóu qí.

The startup capital for this project hasn't been fully raised yet.

chip verb
a small token, chip, or ticket used for counting, scoring, or gambling

古代的人们常用骨制的筹来计算数字。

gǔ​dài de rén​men cháng​yòng gǔ zhì de chóu lái jì​suàn shù​zì.

Ancient people often used bone counting rods to calculate numbers.

means idiom
a strategy, resource, or way to handle a situation or solve a problem

面对这道难题，他竟然一筹莫展。

miàn​duì zhè dào nán​tí, tā jìng​rán yī​chóu​mò​zhǎn.

Faced with this difficult problem, he was surprisingly at a complete loss.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,677th most common 55.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,743rd most common 30.0 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.1 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
22.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
籌
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+7B79

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)