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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

機き構こう

kikou

mechanism, machinery

Example sentences

  1. どこか機構きこうが悪わるいに違ちがいない。

    Something must be wrong with the machinery.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. つまり、いくつかの銃じゅうは、暴発ぼうはつ(例たとえば落おとされた時とき)を防ふせぐために優すぐれた安全あんぜん機構きこうを持もっていますがそうでない銃じゅうも多おおいのです。

    In short some guns have excellent security systems to prevent accidental firing (e.g. when dropped), others don’t.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これは、他たに類るいを見みない画期的かっきてきな機構きこうが取とられている。

    This is an unprecedented revolutionary mechanism.

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

Kanji in 機構

  • 機loom; mechanismOnキKunはた
  • 構posture; stanceOnコウKunかまえる・かまう

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