转折 (zhuǎn zhé): meaning and stroke order
转折 (zhuǎn zhé) means shift in the trend of events, turnaround, plot shift in a book, turn in the conversation.
转折
- Simplified
- 转折
- Traditional
- 轉折
- Pinyin
- zhuǎn zhé
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Stroke order of 转折
转
- zhuǎi see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
- zhuǎn to turn; to change direction
- zhuàn to revolve; to turn
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 轉
Stroke by stroke
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
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Meaning of 转折
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zhuǎn zhé
Traditional 轉折
- shift in the trend of events
- turnaround
- plot shift in a book
- turn in the conversation
Radicals of the characters
- 转
- Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 车 on the left, 专 on the right
- 折
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 斤 on the right
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.
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).