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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
shé - to snap
- to break (a stick, a bone etc)
- (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
zhē - to turn sth over
- to turn upside down
- to tip sth out (of a container)
zhé - to break
- to fracture
- to snap
- to suffer loss
- to bend
- to twist
- to turn
- to change direction
- convinced
- to convert into (currency)
- discount
- rebate
- tenth (in price)
- classifier for theatrical scenes
- to fold
- accounts book
zhé - variant of 折[zhe2]
- to fold

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 4 4,804 2,040 979

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

A hand 扌 wielding an axe 斤

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
折磨 6 7 1,781 5,787 2,880
骨折 - 7 4,356 5,066 12,950
6 4 4,804 2,040 979
折腾 6 8 7,063 6,344 2,754
折断 - - 9,606 19,901 19,966
挫折 6 8 9,693 7,639 4,601
打折 4 4 10,282 - -
折扣 - 8 10,691 8,087 4,922
折叠 - 8 13,598 13,779 9,289
转折点 - 8 14,487 18,297 17,213
不折不扣 - - 15,496 18,894 23,200
曲折 6 8 15,857 10,284 8,538
转折 6 8 16,360 14,155 18,354
存折 - 9 18,642 13,914 15,997
周折 6 - 20,363 20,602 32,961
折服 - - 20,949 22,310 13,943
波折 - 9 21,686 22,661 18,502
折中 - - 22,026 39,682 41,768
折衷 - - 25,023 45,305 61,611
夭折 - - 25,732 23,289 21,451
折回 - - 25,956 39,317 34,644
折射 - 9 26,543 13,548 15,079
打折扣 - - 27,747 17,330 28,902
折返 - - 29,349 31,354 37,992
对折 - - 31,968 38,828 19,009
挫折感 - - 34,223 60,733 46,651
折叠椅 - - 35,764 99,305 61,724
折刀 - - 38,149 - 107,755
破折号 - - 39,409 98,094 55,475
折寿 - - 40,500 66,195 30,025
折腰 - - 42,612 55,805 33,458
折桂 - - 44,648 53,856 68,816
百折不挠 - - 46,066 40,790 38,124
折合 - 9 48,193 13,277 20,753
一波三折 - - 49,423 30,795 32,823
折扇 - - 58,363 40,451 57,380
折光 - - 58,849 84,098 120,781
折算 - - 68,725 23,665 45,210
折射率 - - 75,417 62,054 100,006