TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 詞
飛機
ㄈㄟ ㄐㄧ · fēijī
noun — airplane; aircraft
字源 FORM — what the parts do
飛to fly (飛行的飛)fēia bird caught in upward flight — wings spreading, tail lifting; the pictograph of soaring
機machine; mechanism; critical point (機器的機)jī木 (wood) + 幾 (subtle, critical-point; phonetic jī) — originally the loom: a wooden mechanism built around a sensitive trigger-point
飛機，飛行的飛，機器的機。
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
鳥（飛）展翅而起；木頭機（機：木）裡那個幾（幾）微妙的觸發——讓人飛起來的機器：飛機。
The bird-in-flight pictograph (飛: wings spreading upward); the wooden mechanism (機: 木) built around the subtle trigger-point (幾) — the machine that makes flight happen.
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