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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
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
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
variant of / to fold
HSK 4
to torment; to torture
HSK 7-9
discount
HSK 7-9
to refract / refraction / to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of)
HSK 7-9
to convert into / to amount to / to be equivalent to
HSK 7-9
to fold / collapsible; folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
HSK 7-9
to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) / to repeat sth over and over again / to torment sb / to play crazy / to squander (time, money)
HSK 7-9
to fold paper (to make origami articles); origami
broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg
to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
to turn sth over / to turn upside down / to tip sth out (of a container)
to convert (between currencies)
to turn back
depreciation
refraction
refraction
folding fan
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
crease / fold
folding notebook / accounts book
to bend at the waist; to bow / (fig.) to bow to; to submit
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
to win the laurels / to pass an imperial examination / to win a championship
to convince / to subdue / to be convinced / to be bowled over
to snap sth off / to break
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
clasp knife / folding knife
to reduce by fifty percent / half-price
fold; crease; wrinkle
reflex (angle) / to turn back
reflex (angle) / to turn back
to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom) / fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat
folding chair
to turn back / to retrace one's steps
folding ruler
a loss / to lose money
variant of 折中
lit. to stop the enemy at the banquet table / fig. to get the better of an enemy during diplomatic functions
to atone for a crime
to cash / to change gold or silver into money
massage / snapped-off branch / sprig / to snap a twig (i.e. sth that requires very little effort)
to fold the corner of a page / to dog-ear
folding chair / deck chair
line chart
to discount
folding (i.e. portable)
shuttle run
discount
a loss / to lose money
index of refraction
against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
welt seam (doubled over and sewed again from topside)
Eclectus roratus (red-green parrot of Papua-New Guinea)
to offset
rate of deprecation
to frustrate / to inhibit / to make things difficult
variant of 折殺|折杀
to sell off sth
to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
discount rate
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
a clasp knife / a folding knife
discrepancy in weight
mixed dish of the food left over from a banquet
loss of goods / damage to goods / shrinkage
eclecticism
to do a somersault / to turn head over heels
to turn over
memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form)
pleated skirt


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