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)
Words Containing 折
twists and turns
passbook
to give a discount
to convert into
to refract
discount
to torment
to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)
setback
winding
twists and turns
shift in the trend of events
turning point
to suffer a fracture
to split sth into two (idiom)
calligraphic flourish with many twists
lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom)
a hundred percent
10% off (price)
convex polygonal line
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
diffraction (physics)
diffraction grating (physics)
to die young or prematurely
see 將功贖罪|将功赎罪[jiāng gōng shú zuì]
to sell at a 50% discount
to inflect (in grammar)
to bend
convinced
to give a discount
to compromise
refraction
to cash
clasp knife
to reduce by fifty percent
to turn back
to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
index of refraction
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom)
to offset
to frustrate
to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
to snap sth off
to convince
a loss
massage
to win the laurels
to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
to discount
discount rate
deck chair
crease
discrepancy in weight
against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
to convert (between currencies)
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet
broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)
line chart
welt seam (doubled over and sewed again from topside)
to atone for a crime
loss of goods
to bend at the waist
depreciation
rate of deprecation
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table
eclecticism
Eclectus roratus (red-green parrot of Papua-New Guinea)
to dog-ear
to sell off sth
to do a somersault
reflex (angle)
to turn back
a loss
discount
frustration
accounts book
pleated skirt
to snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub)
undiscounted
(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)
(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)
(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
see 百折不撓|百折不挠[bǎi zhé bù náo]
to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)
crease
(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
dash
to torture
premature death of a budding talent
to make a capital loss
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)
Danger appears where many harmful factors exist. (idiom)
(downwards-starting right angle character stroke)
to spend (much) effort
having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere
(philately) presentation pack
torture and cruel treatment