农机 (nóng jī) — agricultural machinery, farm machinery

Definition

noun
agricultural machineryfarm machinery
Measure word · 台

Examples

  • 农机。
    Nóng mín yòng nóng jī lái gēng dì hé bō zhòng.
    Farmers use agricultural machinery to plow and sow.
  • 农机。
    Zhè jiā gōng sī zhuān mén shēng chǎn xiǎo xíng nóng jī.
    This company specializes in producing small farm machinery.
  • ，农机。
    Suí zhe kē jì fā zhǎn, nóng jī yuè lái yuè zhì néng huà le.
    With the development of technology, agricultural machinery is becoming more and more intelligent.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

农nóngfarm
机jīmachine

The 农 idea narrows the 机 to farm use.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùtree; wood
Sound part声符shēngfú
几
几jǐ机jī
Same sound today

The left part is 木 (tree; wood), and the right part 几 gives the sound.

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