打印机 (dǎ yìn jī)

Character breakdown

• 打 (dá) · 5 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.

• 印 (Yìn) · 5 strokes

  Pictograph of a kneeling person (卩) being held down by a hand (爪). Based on the original meaning "restrain", now written as 抑. The meaning later shifted to "push down", "stamp", and "print".

• 机 (Jī) · 6 strokes

  Simplified form of 機. Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 几 represents the sound.