plan

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 企 conveys planning or devising something; the verb 企てる is read くわだてる.
• Basic usage: 企画, read きかく, means a plan or project; 企業, read きぎょう, means a company or enterprise.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• How the plan is judged
  • 企てる can describe plotting a scheme or planning an event to surprise friends.
  • It does not always imply a criminal plan, though it suggests deliberately devising something more than a casual everyday plan does.
• A plan and an organization
  • 企画を考える means to think up a project; 企業で働く means to work for a company.
  • Their shared initial 企 does not make a proposal and a business organization the same thing.