算盘

abacus / CL:把[ba3] / plan / scheme

to regard as / to figure / to calculate / to compute

plate / dish / tray / board / hard drive (computing) / to build / to coil / to check / to examine / to transfer (property) / to make over / classifier for food: dish, helping / to coil / classifier for coils of wire / classifier for games of chess

lit. small abacus / fig. selfish calculations / bean-counting

counting one's chickens before they are hatched

to compute on the abacus / (fig.) to calculate / to plan / to scheme

lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter