HSK 6 · Verbs

折 zhé “to break” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 折 means

  1. to break
  2. to fold
  3. discount
  4. to convert into
  5. to fracture
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to snap
  • to suffer loss
  • to bend
  • to twist

How to say 折

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale折zhé2nd tone, rising

折 in a sentence

  1. 教我怎么折纸鹤吧。我忘记怎么折了。

    Jiāo wǒ zěnme zhé zhǐhè ba. Wǒ wàngjì zěnme zhé le.

    Teach me how to fold a paper crane. I’ve forgotten how.

    Sentence #1235271 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 那商店里的商品全都打九折呢。

    Nà shāngdiàn lǐ de shāngpǐn quándōu dǎ jiǔ zhé ne.

    Everything in that shop is 10 per cent off.

    Sentence #429363 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 骨折的腿还没好。

    Gǔzhé de tuǐ hái méi hǎo.

    The broken leg hasn’t healed yet.

    Sentence #9773254 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 折 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 折 (zhé) with each of its parts in a different colour
折zhéto break
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 斤axe · jīn

How to write 折

折 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

折 (zhé) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 折 (zhé). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 折

Words with 折

打折dǎzhé · to give a discount折磨zhémo · to torment折腾zhēteng · to toss and turn曲折qūzhé · winding挫折cuòzhé · setback周折zhōuzhé · twists and turns转折zhuǎnzhé · turning point

More words: Common Verbs

占据zhànjù · to occupy展示zhǎnshì · to display展现zhǎnxiàn · to show瞻仰zhānyǎng · to look up to with reverence遮挡zhēdǎng · to block折磨zhémo · to torment争夺zhēngduó · to fight over征服zhēngfú · to conquer

FAQs

折 (zhé) means “to break” or “to fold”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhé: zhé with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 折 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhe with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 折 from the suggestions. Typing zhe into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
折 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.