机jī

In Traditional Chinese (繁體), the character 機 (jī) is written with the wood radical 木 on the left and the phonetic component 幾 on the right, depicting a wooden device that could be a loom or an early machine. The simplified form 机 replaces 幾 with the simpler 几, but the traditional form preserves the original phonosemantic structure. As the root for words like 機械 (machinery) and 飛機 (airplane), 機 shows how the idea of a wooden mechanism has been woven into modern vocabulary.