械
xiè HSK6

weapons

械 xiè
tool noun
appliance, tool, or mechanical instrument

实验室里有许多精密器械。

shí​yàn​shì lǐ yǒu xǔ​duō jīng​mì qì xiè.

There are many precision instruments in the laboratory.

weapon verb
weapons or military equipment

这名歹徒因为持械行凶被警方当场抓获。

zhè míng dǎi​tú yīn​wèi chí xiè xíng​xiōng bèi jǐng​fāng dāng​chǎng zhuā​huò.

The gangster was caught on the spot by the police for armed assault.

shackles noun
instruments of punishment such as fetters or manacles

囚犯被带上了沉重的枷械。

qiú​fàn bèi dài​shàng le chén​zhòng de jiā​xiè.

The prisoner was put in heavy shackles.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,657th most common 57.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,984th most common 19.8 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.450 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
9.44 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+68B0

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)