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闸机

zhá jī

2-character word Traditional 閘機

What 闸机 means

1. turnstile

The characters in 闸机

• 闸zhásluice; sluice gate; to dam up water; (colloquial) brake
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity

Sounds the same

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

• 炸鸡fried chicken
• 轧机steel rolling mill

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