折 — fold, break, fracture, bend, yield, submit

Readings

On'yomi

セツ

Kun'yomi

お.るおりお.り-お.りお.れる

Example words

• 折おり(1) opportunity; chance; occasion; time (2) fold; pleat; crease (3) small food box (wooden or cardboard)
• 時折ときおりsometimes
• 骨折こっせつbone fracture
• 折衷せっちゅうcompromise; cross; blending; eclecticism
• 折り返すおりかえす(1) to turn up; to fold back (2) to loopback (a signal, a message)
• 屈折くっせつ(1) bending; indentation (2) refraction (3) inflection (4) warping (e.g. of opinion, reasoning, etc.); distortion
• 折るおる(1) to break; to fracture; to break off; to snap off; to pick (e.g. flowers) (2) to fold; to bend (3) to make (origami) (4) to interrupt; to end
• 折れるおれる(1) to break; to be broken; to snap; to fracture (2) to be folded (3) to give in; to back down; to yield; to submit (4) to turn (a corner)