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折
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Definitions
- 1. to snap
- 2. to break (a stick, a bone etc)
- 3. (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
Example Sentences
1 shown熱門商品 8 折 起。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 折
a loss
twists and turns
(philately) presentation pack
reflex (angle)
clasp knife
to discount
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
convinced
twists and turns
to spend (much) effort
index of refraction
to atone for a crime
discount
to snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub)
to convert into
lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom)
setback
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom)
premature death of a budding talent
refraction
Eclectus roratus (red-green parrot of Papua-New Guinea)
to frustrate
welt seam (doubled over and sewed again from topside)
to turn back
to give a discount
having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table
to snap sth off
to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
to sell at a 50% discount
undiscounted
to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
to cash
to sell off sth
mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet
diffraction grating (physics)
to win the laurels
loss of goods
(downwards-starting right angle character stroke)
massage
crease
10% off (price)
a hundred percent
to bend
depreciation
torture and cruel treatment
to inflect (in grammar)
to torment
rate of deprecation
eclecticism
turning point
to dog-ear
discrepancy in weight
crease
winding
discount
dash
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere
to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
discount rate
to convince
a loss
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
calligraphic flourish with many twists
to suffer a fracture
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)
deck chair
to turn back
to compromise
to do a somersault
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
line chart
see 百折不撓|百折不挠[bǎi zhé bù náo]
convex polygonal line
to split sth into two (idiom)
(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
see 將功贖罪|将功赎罪[jiāng gōng shú zuì]
accounts book
diffraction (physics)
to torture
to give a discount
pleated skirt
broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)
Danger appears where many harmful factors exist. (idiom)
to reduce by fifty percent
shift in the trend of events
to bend at the waist
against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
to die young or prematurely
to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)
to refract
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[liú yǔ xī]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor
to offset
passbook
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[táo qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate)
to convert (between currencies)
to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)
to make a capital loss
frustration