zhē teng

Traditional: 折騰

HSK 7–9

折腾 (zhē teng) is a Chinese word meaning “to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again; to torment sb”.

Meanings

  1. 1to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)
  2. 2to repeat sth over and over again
  3. 3to torment sb
  4. 4to play crazy
  5. 5to squander (time, money)
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 折腾

折shé · to snap腾téng · (bound form) to gallop; to prance

Related words

折磨to torment; to torture骨折to suffer a fracture折to snap折to turn sth over折to break折variant of 折[zhe2]折断to snap sth off挫折setback沸腾(of a liquid) to boil打折to give a discount折扣discount腾(bound form) to gallop; to prance

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