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周折

zhōu zhé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Measure word 番

周折 (zhōu zhé) means "twists and turns; vicissitude; complication". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 周折 means

1. twists and turns
2. vicissitude
3. complication
4. difficulty
5. effort

The characters in 周折

• 周zhōuto make a circuit; to circle; circle
• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap

Words containing 周折

• 费周折fèi zhōu zhéto spend (much) effort; to go through (a lot of) trouble

Where 周折 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhōu–zhū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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