機

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(different character in Japan and Traditional Chinese)

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

機 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木女戈戈 (DVII), four-corner 4295₃, composition ⿰木幾)

1. machine
2. moment, chance

[edit] Descendants

• き
• キ

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 554, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15561
• Dae Jaweon: page 942, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1298, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A5F

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

機 (simplified 机, jyutping gei1, Yale gei1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

機 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: はた (hata), からくり (karakuri), おり (ori)

[edit] Compounds

• 危機 (きき, kiki), “‘crisis’”)
• 飛行機 (ひこうき, hikōki), “‘airplane, aircraft’”)
• 計算機 (けいさんき, keisanki), “‘calculator’”)
• 掃除機 (そうじき, sōjiki), “‘vacuum cleaner’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

機 (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

機 (simplified 机, pinyin jī (ji1), Wade-Giles chi¹)

[edit] Compounds

• 危機 (weiji)
• 機槍
• 機會
• 司機

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

機 (cơ, ki)