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shé
HSK 3.0 Level 4

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Definitions

  1. 1. to snap
  2. 2. to break (a stick, a bone etc)
  3. 3. (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)

Example Sentences

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熱門商品 8 起。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 13112193)

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Words Containing 折

折本
shé běn

a loss

周折
zhōu zhé

twists and turns

邮折
yóu zhé

(philately) presentation pack

折转
zhé zhuǎn

reflex (angle)

折刀
zhé dāo

clasp knife

折现
zhé xiàn

to discount

折子戏
zhé zi xì

opera highlights performed as independent pieces

心折
xīn zhé

convinced

波折
bō zhé

twists and turns

费周折
fèi zhōu zhé

to spend (much) effort

折射率
zhé shè lǜ

index of refraction

折罪
zhé zuì

to atone for a crime

折扣
zhé kòu

discount

攀折
pān zhé

to snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub)

折合
zhé hé

to convert into

七折八扣
qī zhé bā kòu

lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom)

挫折
cuò zhé

setback

折戟沉沙
zhé jǐ chén shā

lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom)

兰摧玉折
lán cuī yù zhé

premature death of a budding talent

折光
zhé guāng

refraction

折衷鹦鹉
zhé zhōng yīng wǔ

Eclectus roratus (red-green parrot of Papua-New Guinea)

折挫
zhé cuò

to frustrate

折缝
zhé féng

welt seam (doubled over and sewed again from topside)

折回
zhé huí

to turn back

打折扣
dǎ zhé kòu

to give a discount

赔了夫人又折兵
péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng

having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)

折冲樽俎
zhé chōng zūn zǔ

lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table

折断
zhé duàn

to snap sth off

折杀
zhé shā

to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)

对折
duì zhé

to sell at a 50% discount

未折现
wèi zhé xiàn

undiscounted

折寿
zhé shòu

to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)

折兑
zhé duì

to cash

折变
zhé biàn

to sell off sth

折箩
zhē luó

mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet

回折格子
huí zhé gé zi

diffraction grating (physics)

折桂
zhé guì

to win the laurels

折耗
shé hào

loss of goods

竖折
shù zhé

(downwards-starting right angle character stroke)

折枝
zhé zhī

massage

折痕
zhé hén

crease

九折
jiǔ zhé

10% off (price)

不折不扣
bù zhé bù kòu

a hundred percent

弯折
wān zhé

to bend

折旧
zhé jiù

depreciation

酷刑折磨
kù xíng zhé mó

torture and cruel treatment

屈折语
qū zhé yǔ

to inflect (in grammar)

折磨
zhé mó

to torment

折旧率
zhé jiù lǜ

rate of deprecation

折衷主义
zhé zhōng zhǔ yì

eclecticism

转折点
zhuǎn zhé diǎn

turning point

折角
zhé jiǎo

to dog-ear

折秤
shé chèng

discrepancy in weight

皱折
zhòu zhé

crease

曲折
qū zhé

winding

折头
zhé tou

discount

破折号
pò zhé hào

dash

迂回曲折
yū huí qū zhé

meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere

折损
zhé sǔn

to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)

折现率
zhé xiàn lǜ

discount rate

折服
zhé fú

to convince

折钱
shé qián

a loss

反酷刑折磨公约
fǎn kù xíng zhé mó gōng yuē

UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

一波三折
yī bō sān zhé

calligraphic flourish with many twists

骨折
gǔ zhé

to suffer a fracture

蟾宫折桂
chán gōng zhé guì

lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)

折叠椅
zhé dié yǐ

deck chair

折返
zhé fǎn

to turn back

折中
zhé zhōng

to compromise

折跟头
zhē gēn tou

to do a somersault

横折
héng zhé

(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)

折节读书
zhé jié dú shū

to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)

折线图
zhé xiàn tú

line chart

百折不回
bǎi zhé bù huí

see 百折不撓|百折不挠[bǎi zhé bù náo]

凸折线
tū zhé xiàn

convex polygonal line

一折两段
yī zhé liǎng duàn

to split sth into two (idiom)

盘旋曲折
pán xuán qū zhé

(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously

将功折罪
jiāng gōng zhé zuì

see 將功贖罪|将功赎罪[jiāng gōng shú zuì]

折子
zhé zi

accounts book

回折
huí zhé

diffraction (physics)

磨折
mó zhé

to torture

打折
dǎ zhé

to give a discount

折裙
zhé qún

pleated skirt

折线
zhé xiàn

broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)

蠹众木折
dù zhòng mù zhé

Danger appears where many harmful factors exist. (idiom)

折半
zhé bàn

to reduce by fifty percent

转折
zhuǎn zhé

shift in the trend of events

折腰
zhé yāo

to bend at the waist

折笔
zhé bǐ

against the bristles (brush movement in painting)

夭折
yāo zhé

to die young or prematurely

折腾
zhē teng

to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)

折射
zhé shè

to refract

百胜难虑敌,三折乃良医
bǎi shèng nán lǜ dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī

(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

折抵
zhé dǐ

to offset

存折
cún zhé

passbook

为五斗米折腰
wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhé yāo

(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)

折算
zhé suàn

to convert (between currencies)

百折不挠
bǎi zhé bù náo

to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)

亏折
kuī zhé

to make a capital loss

挫折感
cuò zhé gǎn

frustration