折 — fold, break, fracture

おる折 fold

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+6298 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #962 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1211 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fold
break
fracture
bend
yield
submit

word

お o Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

折(お) る oru to break 折(お) れる oreru to break

せつ setsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

骨(こっ) 折(せつ) kossetsu bone fracture 挫(ざ) 折(せつ) zasetsu setback

おり ori Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

折(おり) ori occasion 時(とき) 折(おり) tokiori sometimes

せっ se Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

折(せっ) 角(かく) sekkaku with effort 折(せっ) 衝(しょう) sesshou negotiation 折(せっ) 衷(ちゅう) secchuu compromise

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

きん斤 axe #69

Used as component in (3)

てつ哲 philosophy ちかう誓 vow ゆく逝 departed

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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