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


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