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折磨

zhé mó

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

折磨 (zhé mó) means "to torment; to torture". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 折磨 means

1. to torment; to torture

The characters in 折磨

• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap
• 磨móto rub; to grind; to polish

Example sentences

• 别折磨他们了。
  Stop tormenting them.
• 他们是不会停止折磨我的。
  Tāmen shì bù huì tíngzhǐ zhémó wǒ de.
  They wouldn't stop torturing me.
• 再折磨他也没用，他不会招供的。
  There's no point in torturing him, he isn't going to confess.

Words containing 折磨

• 酷刑折磨kù xíng zhé mótorture and cruel treatment
• 反酷刑折磨公约fǎn kù xíng zhé mó gōng yuēUN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

Where 折磨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhào–zhù (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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