Zi:机
机 [jī] (F機) (机器 jīqì) machine (收音机 radio; 飞机 airplane); 机巧 clever; 机会 chance; (HDZ:) 几: 小桌子; (姓) [wèi] 砧板, 椹, (HDC:) 机上肉: (砧板上的肉; 任人宰割者)
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The simple-form character 机 (6 strokes) is an old form (formerly a tree name, see below), re-used as the simple form of the full-form character 機 jī ‘machine’ (16 strokes), replacing the full-form component 幾 (12 strokes) with 几 (2 strokes).
Note: In the simple form 机 jī ‘machine’ the full-form component 幾 jī (phonetic) becomes 几 jī (phonetic); cf. 叽/嘰, 讥/譏.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 机 jī ‘alder tree’ (桤木) combines 木 (mù) ‘tree’, with 几 jī (phonetic).
Note: Today also 机/几 jī ‘table’, formerly wr. 几; formerly also 机 wèi ‘chopping block’.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 機 jī ‘trigger mechanism of a crossbow’, combines 木 (mù) ‘tree/wood’, and 幾 jǐ (phonosemantic).
Compare: 幾 jī ‘subtle signs/omens; crisis/danger/peril’, in which 𢆶 yōu ‘fine threads’ (bowstring), and 戍 shù ‘garrison/defend’.
Note: Formerly 機 jī ‘trigger mechanism of a crossbow’, generalized to ‘looms (weaving); mechanisms/machines/devices; aircraft (flying machines); ingenuity; etc.’.
HDZ: 机 : jī : (木名) 榿: 桤木; (简体) 機; 几: 小桌子, 用以搁置物件或依靠; (姓) • wèi : 砧板, 椹
►references: Guǎngyùn:053.01,247.36; Karlgren:AD328,GSR602c; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.1155.4; Mathews:411; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:510.12; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:024.1.02; EDOC:1
►components: 木几
►Cantonese: gei\
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<comp char='木' uni='6728' variant='1' points='0,0 56,128' />
<comp char='几' uni='51E0' points='56,10 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='木' uni='6728' variant='1' points='0,0 56,128' radical='K0'>
<comp char='十' uni='5341' variant='6' points='0,0 128,128' />
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<stroke type='d' points='70,46 120,78' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='十' uni='5341' variant='6' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,34 128,34' />
<stroke type='s' points='64,0 64,128' />
<!-- variant based on [U+ED32](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='几' uni='51E0' points='0,4 128,128'>
<stroke type='sp' points='38,0 38,37 0,128' />
<stroke type='hzwg' points='38,0 88,0 88,96 100,114 128,114 128,80' head='cut' />
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+673A
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