# 械 — Contraption

Frequency rank 854 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 略 (Abbreviation), less common than 複 (Duplicate).

- On’yomi: かい
- Kun’yomi: かせ
- Radical: 木 Tree (Kangxi 75)
- Frequency path: Level VII of XX

A tree on the left supports a drunkard and twenty on the right — a drunkard builds a contraption from twenty pieces of a tree, a wobbly machine of wood and booze.

In words:

- 機械 きかい — machine,mechanism
- 器械 きかい — instrument

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