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挫折

cuò zhé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

挫折 (cuò zhé) means "setback". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挫折 means

1. setback
2. reverse
3. check
4. defeat
5. frustration
6. disappointment
7. to frustrate
8. to discourage
9. to set sb back
10. to blunt
11. to subdue

The characters in 挫折

• 挫cuòobstructed; to fail; to oppress
• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap

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.

Words starting with 挫折

• 挫折感cuò zhé gǎnfrustration

Where 挫折 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cì–dā (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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