打印机

打

dǎ

印

yìn

机

機

ji̅

printer

Characters and words in 打印机

打

dá = d + a2

dozen (loanword)

打

dǎ = d + a3

to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

打 = 丁 + 扌 : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.

打

dǎ

印

yìn

to affix a seal / to stamp / to print out (with a printer)

印

yìn = y + (e)n4

surname Yin / abbr. for 印度[Yin4 du4]

印 = 卬 + 一 : Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.

印

yìn = y + (e)n4

to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image

机

機

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

(bound form) machine; mechanism / (bound form) aircraft / (bound form) an opportunity / (bound form) crucial point; pivot / (bound form) quick-witted; flexible / (bound form) organic

机 = 几 + 木 : Joan of Arc (ji) made a machine (机) that fully automatically manufactures tables (几) out of Christmas trees (木) and tests it in front of the space station (Ø1).