xiè

appliance

tool; weapon; shackles; also pr. [jie4]

wood (木) + restraint sound (戒) = tools, weapons, shackles

木 grounds the meaning in wood — the material of early tools, weapons, and restraints like wooden shackles. 戒 mainly contributes the sound xiè here, though its own sense of restraint and warning gives the pairing a certain poetic coherence.

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To guard againstPhonetic
WoodSemantic

警察没收了那些非法的器

jǐng chá méi shōu le nà xiē fēi fǎ de qì xiè。

The police confiscated those illegal appliances/tools.

两个村子之间曾经发生过斗。

liǎng gè cūn zi zhī jiān céng jīng fā shēng guò xiè dòu。

Armed fights once broke out between the two villages.

Words with 械

叶轮机械

yè lún jī xiè

turbomachine

医疗器械

yī liáo qì xiè

medical equipment

上海振华港口机械

shàng hǎi zhèn huá gǎng kǒu jī xiè

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company

中国精密机械进出口公司

zhōng guó jīng mì jī xiè jìn chū kǒu gōng sī

China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC)

器械

qì xiè

apparatus

持械

chí xiè

armed (robbery etc)

挖掘机械

wā jué jī xiè

excavator

械系

xiè xì

to arrest and shackle

械斗

xiè dòu

armed confrontation

枪械

qiāng xiè

firearm

机械

jī xiè

machine

机械化

jī xiè huà

to mechanize

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