架 (jià) — frame, rack, stand; verb — to prop up, set across; to fight

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架 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)

架＝木＋加

ㄐㄧㄚˋ · jià

noun — frame, rack, stand; verb — to prop up, set across; to fight

字源 FORM — what the parts do

木義wood, a treethe timber the frame is built from

加聲jiā — gives the sounda mouth (口) beside strength (力) — to pile on, add

Tjiā → jià — the reading held, the tone fell

Wood (木) and 加 jiā for the sound — and 加 pulls its weight in meaning too, piling timber on timber. Wood crossed and stacked into a frame: 書架、衣架. To set such a frame up, to prop across: 架橋、架起. Two people crossing arms like crossed beams gives a fight: 打架. Counted as crossed structures: 一架飛機.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一根木頭（木）橫過另一根，再加（加）一根疊上去——架子搭起來了。

One timber (木) crosses another, and one more added (加) on top — the frame is up.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)架子、書架— a frame, rack, stand常用

→架起、架橋— to prop up, set across常用

⇒打架、吵架— to fight, quarrel常用

⇒一架飛機— a counter for framed machines (planes, etc.)

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