登机 (dēng jī) — to board a plane | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

登机 is a 离合词 (separable verb) meaning 'to board a plane' — you can split it as 登了机. Not to be confused with 入境, which means entering a country through immigration.

verb

to board a plane

Examples

，登机。
Qǐng dà jiā zhǔn bèi hǎo hù zhào, mǎ shàng yào dēng jī le.
Everyone please have your passports ready — we'll be boarding soon.
，。
Wǒ zuó tiān xià wǔ sān diǎn dēng de jī, fēi cháng shùn lì.
I boarded at 3 p.m. yesterday, and it went very smoothly.
，。
Tā zài běi jīng jī chǎng dēng le jī, zhí jiē fēi wǎng shàng hǎi.
He boarded the plane at Beijing Airport and flew directly to Shanghai.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

登 meaning board takes 机 meaning plane as its object, giving to board a plane.

Characters in this word

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

癶豆登

癶癶bōleft and right feet
豆豆dòupictogrammic of raised object; stepping stone

登 pairs 癶, left and right feet, with 豆, a raised object or stepping stone; its older form also showed two hands at the bottom, which later dropped.

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

木几机

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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