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折

zhé

HSK 6 Character

What 折 means

1. to break
2. to fracture
3. to snap
4. to suffer loss
5. to bend
6. to twist
7. to turn
8. to change direction
9. convinced
10. to convert into (currency)
11. discount
12. rebate
13. tenth (in price)
14. classifier for theatrical scenes
15. to fold
16. accounts book

Other readings

折 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shéto snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); to sustain a loss (in business)
• zhēto turn sth over; to turn upside down; to tip sth out (of a container)
• zhévariant of {折|zhé}; to fold

Example sentences

• 折被子。
  Fold the quilt.
• 请勿折叠！
  Qǐng wù zhédié!
  Do not fold!
• 别折磨他们了。
  Stop tormenting them.
• 能不能给我打折？
  Néng bù néng gěi wǒ dǎzhé?
  Could you give me a discount?
• 价钱可以打折吗？
  Jiàqian kěyǐ dǎzhé ma?
  Can the price be discounted?
• 你能给我折扣吗?
  Nǐ néng gěi wǒ zhékòu ma?
  Can you give me a discount?

Words starting with 折

• 折磨zhé móto torment; to torture
• 折腾zhē tengto toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again…
• 折扣zhé kòudiscount
• 折叠zhé diéto fold; collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
• 折射zhé shèto refract; refraction; to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of)
• 折合zhé héto convert into; to amount to; to be equivalent to
• 折断zhé duànto snap sth off; to break
• 折服zhé fúto convince; to subdue; to be convinced
• 折回zhé huíto turn back; to retrace one's steps
• 折旧zhé jiùdepreciation
• 折算zhé suànto convert (between currencies)
• 折腰zhé yāoto bend at the waist; to bow; (fig.) to bow to; to submit
• 折中zhé zhōngto compromise; to take the middle road; a trade-off
• 折子zhé zifolding notebook; accounts book
• 折返zhé fǎnto turn back
• 折扇zhé shànfolding fan
• 折光zhé guāngrefraction
• 折半zhé bànto reduce by fifty percent; half-price
• 折抵zhé dǐto offset
• 折损zhé sǔnto suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
• 折本shé běna loss; to lose money
• 折杀zhé shāto not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
• 折现zhé xiànto discount
• 折线zhé xiànbroken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments); polygonal line; dog leg

Words containing 折

• 打折dǎ zhéto give a discount
• 挫折cuò zhésetback; reverse; check
• 曲折qū zhéwinding; (fig.) complicated
• 转折zhuǎn zhéshift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book
• 周折zhōu zhétwists and turns; vicissitude; complication
• 骨折gǔ zhéto suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break; fracture
• 存折cún zhépassbook; bankbook
• 夭折yāo zhéto die young or prematurely; to come to a premature end; to be aborted prematurely
• 不折不扣bù zhé bù kòua hundred percent; to the letter; out-and-out
• 打折扣dǎ zhé kòuto give a discount; to be of less value than anticipated
• 转折点zhuǎn zhé diǎnturning point; breaking point
• 波折bō zhétwists and turns
• 对折duì zhéto sell at a 50% discount; to fold in two
• 奏折zòu zhémemorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form)
• 一波三折yī bō sān zhécalligraphic flourish with many twists; fig. many twists and turns
• 百折不挠bǎi zhé bù náoto keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)…
• 心折xīn zhéconvinced; to admire from the heart; enchanted
• 邮折yóu zhé(philately) presentation pack; stamp folder
• 火折子huǒ zhé zitraditional portable firelighter (bamboo tube of smoldering tinder)
• 破折号pò zhé hàodash; Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
• 费周折fèi zhōu zhéto spend (much) effort; to go through (a lot of) trouble
• 小折刀xiǎo zhé dāopocketknife; penknife
• 磨折mó zhéto torture; to torment
• 盘旋曲折pán xuán qū zhé(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously

Characters that look like 折

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 拆chāito tear open; to tear down; to tear apart
• 祈qíto implore; to pray; to request
• 拦lánto block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi)
• 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
• 轭èyoke
• 驸fùprince consort

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哲wise; a sage
• 辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 蛰to hibernate
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 谪to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region…
• 蜇jellyfish
• 磔old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters