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挫

cuò

HSK 6 Character

What 挫 means

1. obstructed
2. to fail
3. to oppress
4. to repress
5. to lower the tone
6. to bend back
7. to dampen

Example sentences

• 一个人得遇到多大的挫折才会自杀？
  Yīgèrén de yùdào duōdà de cuòzhé cái huì zìshā?
  How frustrated must a person be to commit suicide?
• 他克服了种种困难和挫折，终于成功一个人越过了南极洲。
  Tā kèfú le zhǒngzhǒng kùnnan hé cuòzhé, zhōngyú chénggōng yīgèrén yuèguò le Nánjízhōu.
  He overcame all sorts of hardship and setbacks to succeed in a solo crossing of Antarctica.
• 每件事情都有好的一面,　所以不用计算好处,　相反的要追求挫折,　才得到转机,　洞烛先机.
  Měi jiàn shìqing dōu yǒu hǎo de yīmiàn, suǒyǐ bù yòngjì suàn hǎochu, xiāngfǎn de yào zhuīqiú cuòzhé, cái dédào zhuǎnjī, dòng zhú xiānjī.
  There's an upside to everything so it's unnecessary to focus on the good; on the contrary, we should instead be pushing for reversals because it's only through setbacks that we improve and see decisive opportunities clearly.
• 我们会遭遇挫折和不成功的起步。我作为总统所做的每项决定或政策，会有许多人持有异议，我们也知道，政府不能解决所有问题。
  Wǒmen huì zāoyù cuòzhé hé bù chénggōng de qǐbù. wǒ zuòwéi zǒngtǒng suǒ zuò de měi xiàng juédìng huò zhèngcè, huì yǒu xǔduō rén chíyǒu yìyì, wǒmen yě zhīdào, zhèngfǔ bù néng jiějué suǒyǒu wèntí.
  There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
• 妇女当时没有投票权，她们的希望被挫败，但是安-尼克松-库波尔活着看到妇女们站了起来，看到她们站出来发表自己的见解，看到她们参加大选投票。是的，我们能做到。
  Fùnǚ dāngshí méiyǒu tóupiàoquán, tāmen de xīwàng bèi cuòbài, dànshì ān - Níkèsōng - kù bō ěr huózhe kàn dào fùnǚ men zhàn le qǐlai, kàn dào tāmen zhàn chūlái fābiǎo zìjǐ de jiànjiě, kàn dào tāmen cānjiā dàxuǎn tóupiào. shìde, wǒmen néng zuòdào.
  At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes, we can.

Words starting with 挫

• 挫折cuò zhésetback; reverse; check
• 挫败cuò bàito thwart; to foil (sb's plans); a setback; a failure; a defeat
• 挫折感cuò zhé gǎnfrustration
• 挫疮cuò chuāngacne; pustule

Words containing 挫

• 受挫shòu cuòthwarted; obstructed; setback
• 下挫xià cuò(of sales, prices etc) to fall; to drop; decline
• 力挫lì cuòto win as a result of tenacious effort; to fight off tough competition
• 折挫zhé cuòto frustrate; to inhibit; to make things difficult
• 重挫zhòng cuòdevastating setback; slump (in stock market etc); crushing defeat
• 顿挫dùn cuòa transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence…
• 顿挫抑扬dùn cuò yì yángcadence; modulation
• 抑扬顿挫yì yáng dùn cuòsee 顿挫抑扬

Characters built on 坐

These share the phonetic component 坐 (zuò), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 座zuòseat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation
• 痤cuóacne
• 唑zuòazole (chemistry)
• 锉cuò(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 矬cuóshort; dwarfish
• 脞cuǒchopped meat; trifles

Characters that look like 挫

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

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 控kòngto control; to accuse; to charge
• 描miáoto depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 梅méiplum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• 拯zhěngto raise; to aid; to support
• 掠lüèto take over by force; to rob; to plunder

Sounds the same

Read cuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 错mistake; wrong; bad
• 措to handle; to manage; to put in order
• 厝to lay in place; to put; to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial
• 锉(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 剒to cut; to carve
• 棤rough tree bark
• 莝to chop straw fine for animals
• 蓌to squat (in salutation)