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机关

jī guān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 機關

机关 (jī guān) means "mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 机关 means

1. mechanism; gear
2. machine-operated
3. office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body
4. stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick

The characters in 机关

• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 关guānmountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up…

Example sentences

• 收音机关掉了。
  The radio is powered off.
• 请把发动机关掉。
  Qǐng bǎ fādòngjī guāndiào.
  Please turn off your engine.
• 他的手机关机了。
  Tā de shǒujī guānjī le.
  His cell phone is turned off now.
• 请你把收音机关掉。
  Turn off the radio, please.
• 请把电视机关掉好吗？
  Qǐng bǎ diànshìjī guāndiào hǎo ma?
  Would you please turn off the TV?
• 请把收音机关小声点。
  Please turn down the radio.

Words starting with 机关

• 机关枪jī guān qiāngmachine gun; also written 机枪
• 机关报jī guān bàoofficial (government-operated) newspaper
• 机关车jī guān chēlocomotive
• 机关布景jī guān bù jǐngmachine-operated stage scenery
• 机关炮jī guān pàomachine cannon; machine-gun cannon
• 机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命jī guān suàn jìn tài cōng ming , fǎn suàn le qīng qīng xìng mìngif one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing…

Words containing 机关

• 党政机关dǎng zhèng jī guān(Communist) Party and government organizations
• 司法机关sī fǎ jī guānjudicial authorities
• 公家机关gōng jiā jī guāncivil service
• 行政机关xíng zhèng jī guānadministrative authority; branch of government
• 公安机关gōng ān jī guānpublic security bureau
• 立法机关lì fǎ jī guānlegislature
• 主管机关zhǔ guǎn jī guānthe agency in charge of (e.g. a program); the relevant government body
• 政府机关zhèng fǔ jī guāngovernment (viewed as an organization); institutions of government; government office
• 言论机关yán lùn jī guānthe press; the media
• 自治机关zì zhì jī guāngoverning body of an autonomous territory
• 金融机关jīn róng jī guānfinancial organization
• 识破机关shí pò jī guānto see through a trick
• 轻机关枪qīng jī guān qiāngalso written 轻机枪; light machine gun
• 重机关枪zhòng jī guān qiāngalso written 重机枪; heavy machine gun

Sounds the same

Read jī guān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鸡冠crest; cockscomb
• 笄冠to have just attained maturity (traditional)

Where 机关 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī guān correctly.
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