折
zhē
#1,129 most
frequent character
to turn sth over, to turn upside down
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
折 shows 扌, a hand, and 斤, a wood axe, and first meant cutting a tree in two. In early forms the hand was actually a tree being split. The sense widened to snapping, folding and bending, and even to a discount. Read shé it means to break; read zhē, to turn over.
Drawn as: axe cutting a tree
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