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折腾

zhē teng

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

折腾 (zhē teng) means "to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again; to torment sb". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 折腾 means

1. to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)
2. to repeat sth over and over again
3. to torment sb
4. to play crazy
5. to squander (time, money)

The characters in 折腾

• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap
• 腾téng(bound form) to gallop; to prance; (bound form) to soar; to hover; to make room…

Where 折腾 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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhē teng correctly.
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