Chinese symbol for “snap”
折
shé
to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for snap is 折 (shé), defined as: to snap; to break (a stick, a bone etc); (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “snap”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咔 | kā | (onom.) click; snap; crack |
| 断 (斷) | duàn | to break; to snap |
| 抓拍 | zhuā pāi | to capture (an image); to snap (a photo) |
| 撧 | juē | to break off; to snap |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 折.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 折磨 | zhé mó | to torment; to torture |
| 挫折 | cuò zhé | setback; reverse |
| 折腾 (折騰) | zhē teng | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again |
| 曲折 | qū zhé | winding; (fig.) complicated |
| 折扣 | zhé kòu | discount |
| 转折 (轉折) | zhuǎn zhé | shift in the trend of events; turnaround |
See also: Japanese symbol for “snap”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.