机

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(different character in Japan and Traditional Chinese)

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 + phonetic 几

[edit] Han character

机 (radical 75 木+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓 (DHN), four-corner 4791₀, composition ⿰木几)

1. desk
2. machine
3. moment

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 510, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14435
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1155, character 4
• Unihan data for U+673A

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

机 (traditional 機, Yale gei1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

机 (hiragana つくえ, romaji tsukue)

1. a desk; a table

[edit] Kanji

机 (grade 6 kanji)

1. desk, table

[edit] Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: つくえ (tsukue)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

机 (hangeul 궤, revised gwe, McCune-Reischauer kwe, Yale kwey)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

机 (traditional 機, pinyin chéng (cheng2), jī (ji1), tīng (ting1), Wade-Giles ch'eng², chi¹, t'ing¹)

[edit] Compounds