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

秋收时节，田里到处是打谷机的声音。

Qiūshōu shíjié, tián lǐ dàochù shì dǎgǔjī de shēngyīn.

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

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