| 图 | tú | diagram / picture / drawing / chart / map / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to plan / to scheme / to attempt / to pursue / to seek |
| 计算 | jì suàn | to calculate; to compute / to consider; to think over / to plot; to scheme |
| 机关 | jī guān | mechanism; gear / machine-operated / office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body / stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick / CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 招数 | zhāo shù | move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数[zhao1 shu4] |
| 策划 | cè huà | to plot / to scheme / to bring about / to engineer / planning / producer / planner |
| 机械 | jī xiè | machine / machinery / mechanical / (old) cunning / scheming |
| 三十六计 | sān shí liù jì | The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems |
| 门槛 | mén kǎn | doorstep / sill / threshold / fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper) |
| 试点 | shì diǎn | test point / to carry out trial / pilot scheme |
| 算计 | suàn ji | to reckon / to calculate / to plan / to expect / to scheme |
| 一斑 | yī bān | lit. one spot (on the leopard) / fig. one small item in a big scheme |
| 看穿 | kàn chuān | see through (a person, scheme, trick etc) |
| 盘算 | pán suàn | to plot / to scheme / to calculate |
| 勾心斗角 | gōu xīn dòu jiǎo | to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined |
| 套儿 | tàor | (coll.) loop of rope / noose / scheme / ploy / condom |
| 心路 | xīn lù | scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas |
| 策划人 | cè huà rén | sponsor / plotter / schemer |
| 积分 | jī fēn | integral (calculus) / accumulated points (in sports, at school etc) / total credits earned by student / bonus points in a benefit scheme |
| 共谋 | gòng móu | to scheme together / to conspire / joint plan / conspiracy |
| 伎俩 | jì liǎng | trick; scheme; ploy / skill |
| 太极图 | Tài jí tú | diagram of cosmological scheme / Yin-Yang symbol ☯ |
| 心计 | xīn jì | scheming / shrewdness |
| 野心 | yě xīn | ambition / wild schemes / careerism |
| 庞氏骗局 | Páng shì piàn jú | Ponzi scheme |
| 神机妙算 | shén jī miào suàn | divine strategy and wonderful planning (idiom) / clever scheme / supremely clever in his schemes |