折腾

折腾 zhēteng in a sentence

To toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again; to torment sb; to play crazy; to squander (time, money)†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

折腾 (zhēteng) means To toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly), to repeat sth over and over again, to torment sb †. 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

他 折腾 了一晚上也没睡着。

Tā zhēteng le yì wǎnshang yě méi shuìzháo.

He tossed and turned all night without sleeping.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折腾

这件事 折腾 了他好几个月。

Zhè jiàn shì zhēteng le tā hǎojǐ ge yuè.

This business put him through several months of trouble.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折腾

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How is 折腾 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 折腾 (zhēteng, "To toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly), to repeat sth over and over again, to torment sb, to play crazy †"), 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 折腾 an HSK word?

Yes — 折腾 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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The dictionary page for 折腾 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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