Results for “折”

discount

refraction

memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form)

folding notebook / accounts book

folding ruler

folding chair

to fold paper (to make origami articles) / origami

pleated skirt

reflex (angle) / to turn back

calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns

lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back

(lit.) break one's arm three times (to become a good doctor) / (fig.) extensive experience (esp. gained through repeated hardship)

(lit.) break one's arm three times to become a good doctor (idiom) / (fig.) experience is a good teacher

10% off (price)

convex polygonal line

UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

memorial to the emperor (folded in accordion form)

see 將功贖罪|将功赎罪[jiāng gōng shú zuì]

pocketknife / penknife

to inflect (in grammar) / to decline / to conjugate

to bend

convinced / to admire from the heart / enchanted

to sell at half price / to give a 50% discount

to snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub)

(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it) / (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage / to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhūyún-shéjiàn]

(horizontal-starting right angle character stroke)

traditional portable firelighter (bamboo tube of smoldering tinder)

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Táo Qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liú Yǔ xī]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes

see 百折不撓|百折不挠[bǎi zhé bù náo]

to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom) / to be undaunted by repeated setbacks / to be indomitable

crease / fold / ripple / lap

(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously

dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)

to torture / to torment

premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young

to make a capital loss

lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination

Danger appears where many harmful factors exist. (idiom)

(downwards-starting right angle character stroke)