折 · zhé
break off, snap; bend
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
break off, snap; bend
- Mandarin
- zhé
- Cantonese
- zit3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 折 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
セツ シャク ゼツ テイ セイ ダイ セチ おる おり おれる くじくKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 절
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6298
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 折
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
摺
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- dej · 杜奚 反切 · #301
- Middle Chinese
- tsyet · 旨熱 反切 · #3494
- Middle Chinese
- dzyet · 常列 反切 · #3496
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2829 · dej = 蟹開四平齊定 · tsyet = 山開三入仙章 · dzyet = 山開三入仙常
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhé
- kCantonese
- zit3
- kDefinition
- break off, snap; bend
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 64.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+6298 U+647A
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+6298
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:632
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhé,shé,tí,zhē 31838.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- shé 1010.110 · zhē 1462.040 · zhé 1463.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- shé 328.170 · zhē 469.040 · zhé 469.070,469.080
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zhé(196) zhē(24) shé(11)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhé粵zit3 shé粵zit3 zhē粵zit3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 杜奚 旨熱 常列
- Kangxi positions
- 0422.040
- Guangyun positions
- 088.27 497.40 497.50
- GSR references
- 0287a
- Cangjie
- QHML
- Four-corner
- 5202.1