Chinese Character 折 Meanings and components.

Form

折

Meaning

折 meaning[3] in English

To Break (E.G. Stick Or Bone).

A Loss.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 折 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and catty (斤)

Its radical[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QHML

How to write 折

To write折zhe2to break … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 斤jin1catty arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 斤 = 折

折 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 折 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 折, looks as follow:

折
Pinyin:zhe2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Break (E.G. Stick Or Bone) . A Loss
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
斤
Pinyin:jin1
Meaning[3]: Catty . (Prc) Weight Equal To 500 G . (Tw) Weight Equal To 600 G . (Hk, Malaysia, Singapore) Slightly Over 604 G

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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