折腾 zhēteng▶ Lanzar

Stroke order

折腾 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 折 — 7 strokes
• 腾 — 13 strokes

Senses

1. to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)
2. to repeat sth over and over again
3. to torment sb
4. to play crazy
5. to squander (time, money)

Related words

• 折fractura
• 周折Giros y vueltas
• 折磨tortura
• 挫折frustración
• 曲折Tortuoso
• 沸腾hirviendo

折腾 is pronounced zhēteng and means “Lanzar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 折腾 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.