打谷机

打穀機

dǎgǔjī

noun #95,884

Measure Word

一台打谷机 tái

Meanings

1 threshing machine
2 thresher

Characters

to beat / to thresh

Examples

HSK 7-9

秋收时节，田里到处是打谷机的声音。

Qiū shōu shíjié, tiánlǐ dàochù shì dǎgǔjī de shēngyīn.

At harvest time, the fields ring with the sound of threshing machines.

HSK 7-9

用打谷机比手工脱粒快得多。

Yòng dǎgǔjī bǐ shǒugōng tuōlì kuài de duō.

Using a threshing machine is much faster than threshing by hand.

Tips

memory

Literally 'beat-grain-machine': 打 (beat) + 谷 (grain) + 机 (machine). Many Chinese tool names follow this verb-object-机 pattern, e.g. 洗衣机 (washing machine, 'wash-clothes-machine').

Stroke Order

打 dǎ

谷 gǔ

机 jī