架 is a phono-semantic compound:
木 suggests the concept of wood or wooden structure;
加 contributes the sound (가) and implies placing or adding something on top.
The idea: wooden pieces put together to form a rack, stand, or frame.
Over time, it expanded to mean to set up, support, suspend, and is now also a measure word for airplanes in modern Chinese.

架設 (가설) – erection, installation, mounting;
書架 (서가) – bookshelf;
비행기 한 架 – “one airplane” (measure word usage).

Characters

Words

Vocabulary

to stop, to prevent, to prohibit

east, the eastern direction

pine tree

plank, board, panel

to split, to divide, to separate, to analyze, to distinguish, to break apart

single, piece, stem

fruit, result, outcome, decisive, resolute

branch, twig, offshoot, to divide, to branch out

rack, stand, prop, frame, framework

pillar, post, column, to support, to hold up

root, foundation, basis, origin, cause, to take root

form, standard, rule, style, pattern

branch, twig, item

forest, woods, grove, dense, thick

to plant, to set up, to grow

work, occupation, profession, task, business, enterprise, learning, studies, karma (in Buddhist context)

to the utmost, to exhaust, extreme, ultimate, end, utmost point

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架

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