Hitung

Hitung is an Indonesian verb meaning to count or to calculate. It is used in everyday speech and in mathematical, financial, and data contexts. The noun form hitungan refers to a calculation, tally, or estimate, and the related verb menghitung means to perform counting or calculation. The word is common across Indonesian varieties and is often paired with other words to form phrases.

In education, menghitung covers basic arithmetic, mental calculation, and more advanced topics such as statistics. Hitungan can describe the result of an operation, while perhitungan is a more formal term for calculation or computation.

Common phrases include hitung cepat (mental arithmetic), menghitung biaya or menghitung pengeluaran (to calculate costs), and hitung mundur (countdown). In finance and accounting, hitungan and perhitungan appear in budgeting, cost estimation, and financial reporting.

In computing and data processing contexts, menghitung can refer to performing numerical operations on data, as in calculating sums, averages, or frequencies. The term also appears in everyday life for simple chores such as counting items, tallying votes, or estimating quantities.