漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
機: loom, mechanism
Also: machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion
JLPT N316 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 幾 gives the sound
16 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 機械きかいmachine
- 機会きかいopportunity
- 機能きのうfunction
- 機嫌きげんmood
- 機敏なきびんなsmart, quick
- 危機ききcrisis
- 動機どうきincentive
- 飛行機ひこうきairplane
- 待機するたいきするstand by [v.i.]
- 投機するとうきするspeculate (stock, currency)
はたhata · kun'yomi · on its own
- 機はたloom
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 (meaning) + 幾 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 機 (rev. 92365654), CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side機 loom · 木
vs磯 seashore · 石In ChineseSimplified 机 · traditional, as in Japanese · jī
Japan keeps the traditional form 機; mainland China simplifies it to 机.
- Simplified
- 机 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 機 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jī 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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