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打折
Meaning
- to give a discount
Example sentence
价钱可以打折吗？
Can the price be discounted?
Characters in 打折
- 打 dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 折 zhé to break, to snap; to fold; a discount
打 to strike plus 折, to break or discount. 折 also gives 折扣; a verb-object pair, so it splits.