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折 — 7 strokes / Radical「手」

道
7Elementary year 4 / 7 strokes / Radical「手」
On
セツせつ · setsu
Kun
お(る)・おり・お(れる)o(ru) · ori · o(reru)
Meaning
to fold; to break; to bend

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Combines 扌 (hand) and 斤 (axe); holding an axe to cut wood or grass, meaning 'to fold; to break'.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onセツせつsetsu折衷せっちゅう折衝せっしょう屈折くっせつ
Kunおるoru折るおる折り紙おりがみ折り箱おりばこ
Kunおりori折おり……する折……するおり
Kunおれるoreru折れるおれる名折れなおれ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 折り紙おりがみ

    origami; paper folding

  • 骨折こっせつ

    bone fracture

More words with this kanji

  • 屈折くっせつ
  • 折衷せっちゅう
  • 挫折ざせつ
  • 夭折ようせつ
  • 紆余曲折うよきょくせつ

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

折(お)り紙(がみ)でつるを折(お)った。

I folded a crane out of origami paper.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

折り紙骨折折紙paper骨bone挙raise手hand承to rec…挘to plu…挈to car…節node説explai…切to cut刹temple拙clumsy
CompoundRadicalReading

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)