IDENTITY
器qìdevice; instrument
HSK 3Top 350
CORE MEANING
device; instrument
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.device; vesselHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 16
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿳吅犬吅
- the guard (old vessels shaped like dogs)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
机器jīqìmachine
机器人jīqìrénrobot
乐器yuèqìmusical instrument
Graded examples
机器人会扫地。Jīqìrén huì sǎodì.HSK4
The robot can sweep the floor.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Four mouths (口) around a guard dog (犬) — a vessel, an instrument.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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