周折

周折 zhōuzhé in a sentence

Twists and turns (trouble)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

周折 (zhōuzhé) means Twists and turns (trouble). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

这次出行费了不少 周折 。

Zhè cì chūxíng fèi le bù shǎo zhōuzhé.

This trip involved no small amount of trouble.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 周折

经过一番 周折 ,事情终于办成了。

Jīngguò yì fān zhōuzhé, shìqing zhōngyú bàn chéng le.

After a good deal of trouble the matter was finally settled.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 周折

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How is 周折 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 周折 (zhōuzhé, "Twists and turns (trouble)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 周折 an HSK word?

Yes — 周折 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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