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Originally Posted by Lilongyue
机 means machine. Since Japanses adopted some of the simplified characters, but not all (for example 電話 instead of 电话),you might recognize 机's traditional form 機. 机 gets used in all kinds of words - like 飞机. 飞 means to fly, so a "flying machine" is an airplane. Chinese is funny that way.
This has really gotten off-topic, hasn't it? Haha.
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機 I know, its the one use for machine read as "ki"
飛ぶ － tobu is the one for flying
combining it with fly + go + machine = airplane
飛行機 - hikouki - airplane
its still a flying machine but there is a to go by flying machine
yeah out of topic though, but I think more interesting
sorry mods...