How to say "machinery" in Japanese
- 機器ききnounMachinery as tangible equipment: devices and apparatus taken as physical items. When you mean actual machines rather than an abstract system or mechanism, this is the natural choice.
- 機構きこうnounReally 'mechanism': machinery understood as a system of interworking parts rather than tangible machines. For actual devices and equipment it is seldom the word you want; 機器 covers that side.
Choose 機器 for machinery meaning physical equipment — actual devices and apparatus — and 機構 for machinery as a mechanism, a system of working parts rather than tangible machines.
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