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機 kanji
loom, mechanism, machine, airplane, opportunity, potency, efficacy, occasion
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
キ
Kun readings
はた
Words with 機
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —音響機sounder (e.g. for a telegraph)
- —作り機-maker (e.g. ice-maker)
- —絞り機wringer (clothes); squeezer (fruit, etc.); press (grapes, etc.)
- —搾り機wringer (clothes); squeezer (fruit, etc.); press (grapes, etc.)
- —皮剥機debarker
- —皮剝機debarker
- —綿繰機cotton gin; cotton ginning machine
- —機嫌伺courtesy call; courtesy visit
- —按摩機massage machine
- —杭打機pile driver; pile-driver
- —浣腸機enema syringe; clyster pump; enema tube; enemator
- —指示機indicator
- —成型機molding machine
- —発見機detector; detecting machine; detecting device
- —透析機dialyzer
- —釘打機riveting machine; nail gun; nailer
- —剪断機shearing machine; shearer
- —危機一発by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment
- —時機尚早premature
- —洗たく機washing machine; (clothes) washer