械
xiè
appliance
tool; weapon; shackles; also pr. [jie4]
wood (木) + restraint sound (戒) = tools, weapons, shackles
木 grounds the meaning in wood — the material of early tools, weapons, and restraints like wooden shackles. 戒 mainly contributes the sound xiè here, though its own sense of restraint and warning gives the pairing a certain poetic coherence.
警察没收了那些非法的器械。
jǐng chá méi shōu le nà xiē fēi fǎ de qì xiè。
The police confiscated those illegal appliances/tools.
两个村子之间曾经发生过械斗。
liǎng gè cūn zi zhī jiān céng jīng fā shēng guò xiè dòu。
Armed fights once broke out between the two villages.
Words with 械
机械化
jī xiè huà
to mechanize
农业机械
nóng yè jī xiè
agricultural machinery
叶轮机械
yè lún jī xiè
turbomachine
医疗器械
yī liáo qì xiè
medical equipment
上海振华港口机械
shàng hǎi zhèn huá gǎng kǒu jī xiè
Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company
中国精密机械进出口公司
zhōng guó jīng mì jī xiè jìn chū kǒu gōng sī
China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC)
器械
qì xiè
apparatus
持械
chí xiè
armed (robbery etc)
挖掘机械
wā jué jī xiè
excavator
械系
xiè xì
to arrest and shackle
械斗
xiè dòu
armed confrontation
枪械
qiāng xiè
firearm