械 (xiè) — tool, device, machine; (old) fetters

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械 character · B2

械＝木＋戒

ㄒㄧㄝˋ · xiè

noun — tool, device, machine; (old) fetters

字源 FORM — what the parts do

木義wood — what the old fetters were cut from

戒聲jiè — gives the soundtwo hands (廾) gripping a halberd (戈): on guard

IFjiè → xiè — the sound drifted off the donor

Wood (木) cut and locked around a prisoner — the first sense is fetters, the cangue. 戒 jiè carries the sound, worn from jiè to xiè. From a thing made of fitted parts, every device and machine: 機械、器械.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

木頭削好，扣上手腕——一副枷，後來變成各種裝起來的器具。

Wood (木) shaped and clamped round the wrists — a set of fetters, later any fitted device.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)刑具、枷— fetters, cangue

→器械、工具— implement, tool常用

⇒機械— machine, machinery常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension