Chinese symbol for “arbor”
机轴
jī zhóu
Traditional: 機軸
arbor; shaft (in a machine)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for arbor is 机轴 (jī zhóu), defined as: arbor; shaft (in a machine).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “arbor”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 机轴.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 机构 (機構) | jī gòu | mechanism; structure |
| 机会 (機會) | jī huì | opportunity; chance |
| 手机 (手機) | shǒu jī | cell phone; mobile phone; measure word: 部 (bù), 台 (tái) |
| 机关 (機關) | jī guān | mechanism; gear; machine-operated |
| 飞机 (飛機) | fēi jī | airplane; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 机场 (機場) | jī chǎng | airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship |
| 轴承 (軸承) | zhóu chéng | (mechanical) bearing |
| 主轴 (主軸) | zhǔ zhóu | axis; principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “arbor”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.