折

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

• 悊

• KangXi: 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 *tsjat (“to cut off; to sever; to break”).

折

1. to break off; to snap; to pluck off
2. to bend
3. to lose
4. to die (young)
5. to admire; to be convinced
6. to trade; to exchange
7. to censure; to blame
8. discount

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

9. difficulty; obstacle
10. Classifier for folds.
11. Classifier for theatrical scenes.
12. (Chinese calligraphy) a change in direction of a stroke (such as in ㇕, ㇉, or ㇜)
13. a surname

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

折

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

折

1. to break
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／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. fold

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

• 折紙(おりがみ) (origami)

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))[1][2][3], triếp[3], triệp[3]
折: Nôm readings: chết[1][2][3][4][5], giết[1][2][3][4][5], chẹt[2][3][4][5], chiết[1][2][5], chét[1][3], xít[1][4], chệch[3][4], chịt[3][4], nhét[3][4], nhít[3][4], siết[3][4], xiết[3][4], chích[1], chít[3], dít[3], gãy[3], gẩy[3], giẹp[3], quạt[3], trét[3]

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