漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
械: contraption, fetter
Also: machine, instrument
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 戒 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 器械きかいinstrument
- 機械きかいmachine, mechanism
- 器械体操きかいたいそうapparatus gymnastics
- 機械的なきかいてきなmechanical
- 機械化するきかいかするmechanize
- 機械化きかいか
- 工作機械こうさくきかいmachine tool
Also read かせ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xiè
Same form: 械 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 械 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 械 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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