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機 — loom, mechanism, machine

き機 loom

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 16 strokes technology

U+6A5F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #127 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1482 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

loom
mechanism
machine
airplane
opportunity
potency
efficacy
occasion

word

き ki On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

機(き) ki machine 機(き) 関(かん) kikan organization 機(き) 会(かい) kikai opportunity 機(き) 械(かい) kikai machine 機(き) 器(き) kiki machinery 飛(ひ) 行(こう) 機(き) hikouki airplane 機(き) 種(しゅ) kishu model 動(どう) 機(き) douki motive

Appears in idioms

臨機応変四字熟語

look to, loom, apply, unusual

心機一転四字熟語

heart, loom, one, revolve

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

いくつ幾 how many

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.