折

to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)

to turn sth over / to turn upside down / to tip sth out (of a container)

to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book

variant of 折[zhe2] / to fold

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g

a hundred percent / to the letter / out-and-out

twists and turns / vicissitude / complication / difficulty / effort / CL:番[fan1]

calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns

convex polygonal line

UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

diffraction (physics)

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young

to make a capital loss

to split sth into two (idiom)

lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back

10% off (price)