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机

机

See also: 機

Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai 机
Simplified 机
Traditional 机/機

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肌 *kril
飢 *kril
机 *kril, *krilʔ
虮 *kril
几 *krilʔ
麂 *krilʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kril, *krilʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 几 ‎(OC *krilʔ).

Also Simplified from 機 (幾 → 几).

Han character

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

References

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 机 – see 機.
(This character, 机, is the simplified form of 機.)
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 机

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 机 机
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (15) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 居夷切 居履切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪ/ /kiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ki/ /kiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjɪ/ /kjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ki/ /kiX/
Li
Rong		 /ki/ /kiX/
Wang
Li		 /ki/ /kiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki/ /kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī jǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 机
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*krəjʔ/
English small table, stool

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 机 机
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5758 5761
Phonetic
component		 几 几
Rime
group		 脂 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 飢 几
Old
Chinese		 /*kril/ /*krilʔ/

Definitions

机

  1. Alternative form of 几 (jī, “small table; stool”).
  2. †alder
  3. A surname​.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

机

  1. †chopping board

Japanese

Kanji

机

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. desk, table

Readings

Compounds

Noun

机 ‎(hiragana つくえ, romaji tsukue)

  1. desk; table

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. desk

Vietnamese

Han character

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