挫 cuò
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 坐 seat
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
挫折
cuòzhé
to frustrate
Characters in this word
折 zhé
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 斤 axe
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 一次挫折并不足以决定项目的最终命运。 Yí cì cuòzhé bìng bù zúyǐ juédìng xiàngmù de zuìzhōng mìngyùn. A single setback is not enough to decide the project's eventual fate.
- 年轻人遇到挫折不要怕，重新再来就行。 Niánqīngrén yùdào cuòzhé bú yào pà, chóngxīn zài lái jiù xíng. Young people shouldn't be afraid when they run into setbacks; they can simply start again.
- 经历了许多挫折以后，他变得更加坚强了。 Jīnglì le xǔduō cuòzhé yǐhòu, tā biàn de gèngjiā jiānqiáng le. After going through many setbacks, he became even stronger.
Related words
- 挫败 cuòbài to defeat; to frustrate; to thwart
- 受挫 shòucuò to suffer a setback; to be frustrated
- 抑扬顿挫 yìyángdùncuò cadenced; rhythmically modulated
- 打折 dǎzhé to discount; to go on sale
- 折 zhé to fold
- 波折 bōzhé setback; twists and turns
- 不折不扣 bùzhébúkòu out-and-out; thoroughgoing; without discount
- 存折 cúnzhé bankbook; passbook
- 骨折 gǔzhé to fracture; bone fracture
- 曲折 qūzhé winding; complicated; tortuous
- 折 shé to break; to lose money
- 周折 zhōuzhé trouble; twists and turns