Traditional: 机

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Translation

machine; opportunity (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 机

Examples

Don't miss this opportunity.

The plane took off on time.

My phone is out of battery.

tái

This machine is broken.

xiūtái

He is repairing a machine.

机 (jī) originally meant a wooden device or loom and now anchors most words for machines: 飞机 (aeroplane), 手机 (mobile phone). It also carries the abstract sense of opportunity in 机会.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 机.

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This word is part of lesson 102.