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折中 (zhé zhōng): meaning and stroke order

折中 (zhé zhōng) means to compromise, to take the middle road, a trade-off, eclectic.

折中

Simplified
折中
Traditional
折中 (same form)
Pinyin
zhé zhōng

Stroke order of 折中

折

  • shé to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc)
  • zhē to turn sth over; to turn upside down
  • zhé to break; to fracture
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 摺

Stroke by stroke

中

  • Zhōng (bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong
  • zhōng within; among; in; middle; center
  • zhòng to hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 折中

  1. zhé zhōng
    • to compromise
    • to take the middle road
    • a trade-off
    • eclectic

Radicals of the characters

折
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 斤 on the right
中
Radical 丨 (Kangxi radical 2) · 4 strokes · built from 口 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

折中 in our stories

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  • 聂岚想了想，提出了一个折中的方案：把停车场建在地下，地面上保留早市，顺便把破旧的顶棚修一修。

    Niè Lán xiǎng le xiǎng tíchū le yí gè zhézhōng de fāng'àn bǎ tíngchēchǎng jiàn zài dìxià dìmiàn shàng bǎoliú zǎoshì shùnbiàn bǎ pòjiù de dǐngpéng xiū yì xiū

    Nie Lan thought for a moment and put forward a compromise: build the car park underground, keep the market above ground, and fix its shabby roof while they were at it.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 折中

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).