A machine by any other name
Posted by Jonah Lopin on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 @ 02:20 PM
In Mandarin, 机 (ji1) means machine.
In Mandarin, 器 (qi1) means machine.
So what does 机器 mean?
You guessed it. It means machine.
Why have one word for something when you can have 3?