折

Stroke order

折 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手竹一中 (QHML), four-corner 5202₁, composition ⿰扌斤)

• 悊

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 422, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11890
• Dae Jaweon: page 770, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1838, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6298

Historical forms of the character 折
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally 㪿, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): ⿱屮屮 (“a tree 木 cut in half”) + 斤 (“axe”) – an axe cutting a tree in half.

In the current form, the left side has become 扌 (“hand”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tset (“to cut off; to sever; to break”).

折

1. to break off; to snap; to pluck off
2. to bend; to twist
3. to turn back; to change direction
4. to lose; to suffer the loss of
5. to die (young)
6. to convert into; to amount to
7. to admire; to be convinced
8. to trade; to exchange
9. to censure; to blame
10. difficulty; obstacle
11. (Cantonese) to discount

    呢度折咗之後大概係三百蚊。
    呢度折咗之后大概系三百蚊。

    ni¹ dou⁶ zit³ zo² zi¹ hau⁶ daai⁶ koi³ hai⁶ saam¹ baak³ man¹.

    These items are around 300 dollars after discounting.

12. (Cantonese) discount

    呢件衫冇折。

    ni¹ gin⁶ saam¹ mou⁵ zit³.

    There is no discount on this clothing item.

13. (Hokkien) having more benefits than harms; worthwhile; profitable; reasonably priced
14. Classifier for discount.

    打九折  ―  dǎ jiǔ zhé  ―  ten percent off (or discount to ninety percent of the original price)

15. Classifier for folds.
16. Classifier for theatrical scenes.
17. (Chinese calligraphy) a change in direction of a stroke (such as in ㇕, ㇉, or ㇜)
18. (Chinese opera) an act.
19. (historical, Ming and Qing dynasties) short for 奏折 (zòuzhé), memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form); imperial memorial.
20. a surname, She

In Chinese, discounts are expressed in number of tenths of the original price instead of percentage off.

For discounts not in tenths, 點 / 点 (“decimal point”) is omitted, e.g. 七五折 means 75% of the original price, i.e. 25% off.

• (discount): 扣 (kòu)
• (having more benefits):

• (basic character strokes) 點 / 点 (diǎn), 橫 / 横, 豎 / 竖 (shù), 提, 捺 (nà), 撇, 折, 鉤 / 钩 (gōu), 彎 / 弯 (wān), 斜

折

1. to turn over; to flip
2. to pour out; to tip something out

折

1. (intransitive) to break; to snap
2. to be at a (financial) loss

折

1. Only used in 折折.

• “折”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “折（～断）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 214.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. break
2. fold

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: おる (oru, 折る, Jōyō)^{←をる (woru, 折る, historical)}、おり (ori, 折, Jōyō)、おれる (oreru, 折れる, Jōyō)^{←をれる (woreru, 折れる, historical)}、くじく (kujiku, 折く)

• 折々(おりおり) (oriori)

折 • (jeol, je) (hangeul 절, 제, revised jeol, je, McCune–Reischauer chŏl, che, Yale cel, cey)

1. To fold

折: Hán Việt readings: chiết (之(chi)列(liệt)切(thiết)), triếp, triệp
折: Nôm readings: chết, giết, chẹt, chiết, chét, xít, chệch, chịt, nhét, nhít, siết, xiết, chích, chít, dít, gãy, gẩy, giẹp, quạt, trét

1. chữ Nôm form of chết (“to die”)
2. chữ Nôm form of giết (“to kill; to murder”)