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折

折

See also: 摺

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. break off, snap
  2. to bend

References

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 折

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 折 折 折
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 章 (23) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 薛 (81) 薛 (81)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV III III
Fanqie 杜奚切 旨熱切 常列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dei/ /t͡ɕiᴇt̚/ /d͡ʑiᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dei/ /t͡ɕiɛt̚/ /d͡ʑiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɛi/ /t͡ɕjæt̚/ /d͡ʑjæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dɛj/ /ciat̚/ /d͡ʑiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /dei/ /t͡ɕiɛt̚/ /ʑiɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /diei/ /t͡ɕĭɛt̚/ /ʑĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱiei/ /t͡ɕi̯ɛt̚/ /ʑi̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tí zhe shé
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 折 折 折
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dì shé zhé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dejH › ‹ dzyet › ‹ tsyet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˤet-s/ /*N-tet/ /*tet/
English solitary standing (tree) bend (v.i.) bend; break (v.t.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 折 折 折
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 16937 16947 16951
Phonetic
component		 折 折 折
Rime
group		 歌 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 嗁 晢 折
Old
Chinese		 /*l'eːl/ /*ʔljed/ /*ɦljed/

Definitions

折

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  2. (Chinese calligraphy) a change in direction of a stroke (such as in ㇕, ㇉, or ㇜)

Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 折 – see 翼.
(This character, 折, is a variant form of 翼.)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 折 – see 摺.
(This character, 折, is the simplified form of 摺.)
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

折

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. fold

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

折 (chiết, chẹt, chết, chệch, chịt, giết, nhét, nhít, siết, xít, xiết, chét, chít, díp, gãy, gẩy, giẹp, giỡn, trét, triếp)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 折
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晢 *ʔljeds, *ʔljed
狾 *ʔljeds
誓 *ɦljeds
逝 *ɦljeds
銴 *ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds
折 *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎 *hleːws, *qʰred
哳 *ʔr'eːd
踅 *sɢʷled
哲 *ʔl'ed
蜇 *ʔl'ed
悊 *ʔl'ed
嚞 *ted
喆 *ted
硩 *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ
浙 *ʔljed
晣 *ʔljed
焎 *hred

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