machine; mechanism; opportunity; crucial point
机 means machine, mechanism, or opportunity; 木 is the old material clue and 几 is the sound clue.
GF0025–2021 character list · 一级WHOLE GLYPH & STRUCTURE
Use 木 and 几 to remember the modern shape. The historical origin of old 机 and the modern simplified form of 機 are distinct.
WHOLE CHARACTER
machine; mechanism; opportunity; crucial point
机 means machine, mechanism, or opportunity; 木 is the old material clue and 几 is the sound clue.
Use 木 and 几 to remember the modern shape. The historical origin of old 机 and the modern simplified form of 機 are distinct.
WOOD MEANING SIDE
tree; wood
Tree/wood-related meaning clue.
In 机: wood meaning side ZDIC records the wood side as the meaning clue.
SAME-SOUND MODERN COMPONENT
small table; nearly; jǐ how many
Standalone meaning is kept separate from its role in other characters.
In 机: same-sound modern component 几 has a reading jī, matching 机 jī. The source distinguishes the old tree-name character 机 from traditional 機, whose historical phonetic component is 幾.
This page teaches modern simplified 机. The tree is a modern visual split and is kept separate from the historical 機 graph.
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