机
機jī
#111 most
frequent character
(bound form) machine, mechanism
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
机 joins 木 tree with 几 jī, the sound part, and first named a kind of birch. The written form was later borrowed for its sound to mean a crossbow trigger, from which came 'crucial point', 'machine', 'airplane', and more. A separate sound loan gives 'short table', usually written 几.
Drawn as: tree
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