機構 (Kikou) is a Japanese noun meaning “mechanism, machinery, system, structure”.
Meanings
- nounmechanism; machinery
- nounsystem; structure; organization; framework
Examples
どこか機構が悪いに違いない。
Something must be wrong with the machinery.
ＷＨＯとは世界保健機構を表す。
WHO stands for World Health Organization.
この地域社会に住む一人一人は、健康な人間が持つ免疫機構の細胞のようなものだ。
Every person in this community is like a cell in the immune system of a healthy human body.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).