机制 jīzhì machine-processed
machine-processed; machine-made; mechanism
How to remember 机制: 机 machine + 制 system = machine-processed.
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How it is used
- A mechanism - how a system is structured to work - 市场机制 (shìchǎng jīzhì) market mechanism, 监督机制 (jiāndū jīzhì) oversight mechanism.
- The dominant modern sense is an institutional/systemic mechanism (the workings of a system), not a physical machine.
- Formal, very common in policy, management, and science. The 'machine-made' gloss is minor/archaic.