Illustration: In a Japanese middle-school science room, a pupil carefully adjusts the focusing knob of a sturdy optical microscope while looking through its eyepiece. A glass slide is clipped onto the illuminated stage, and spare slides sit in a shallow tray beside it.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

器き械かい

kikai

instrument, apparatus

器械 means an instrument; 機械 usually means a machine. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 血圧計けつあつけいが大切たいせつな検査けんさ器械きかいです。

    The sphygmomanometer is an important diagnostic instrument.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 文書ぶんしょ・器械きかい展示てんじのほか、ノーベル賞受賞者しょうじゅしょうしゃ・田中耕一関連たなかこういちかんれんのパネル展示てんじもある。

    It displays not only writings and instruments, but exhibits panels related to Koichi TANAKA, a Nobel Award winner, as well.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 彼かれは化学工芸かがくこうげいの指導しどうなどを職務しょくむとし、理化学りかがく器械きかいの製造せいぞうのため出入でいりしていた源蔵げんぞうにも接せっしていた。

    His duties included teaching chemical technology, and he also met Genzo, who came there to make scientific instruments.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 器械

  • 器utensil; vesselOnキKunうつわ
  • 械contraption; fetterOnカイKunかせ

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