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zhé to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book
一波三折 sān zhé calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns
扭曲 niǔ to twist / to warp / to distort
niǔ to turn / to twist / to wring / to sprain / to swing one's hips
波折 zhé twists and turns
双绞线 shuāng jiǎo xiàn twisted pair (cabling)
峰回路转 fēng huí zhuǎn the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
nǐng mistake / to twist
拧成一股绳 níng chéng shéng to twist (strands) together to form a rope / (fig.) to unite; to work together
周折 zhōu zhé twists and turns / vicissitude / complication / difficulty / effort / CL:番[fan1]
jiǎo to twist (strands into a thread) / to entangle / to wring / to hang (by the neck) / to turn / to wind / classifier for skeins of yarn
盘陀 pán tuó twisted / spiral / uneven stones
扭摆 niǔ bǎi to twist and sway (one's body)
cuō to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist
wǎng to twist / crooked / unjust / in vain
一波未平,一波又起 wèi píng , yòu before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
强扭的瓜不甜 qiǎng niǔ de guā tián lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
扭结 niǔ jié to tangle up / to twist together / to wind
强词夺理 qiǎng duó to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
ǎo (dialect) to twist; to bend (in order to break sth or form it into a shape)
拧开 nǐng kāi to unscrew / to twist off (a lid) / to turn on (a faucet) / to switch on (by turning a knob) / to turn (a door handle) / to wrench apart
蜷曲 quán twisted / coiled / curled
绕绕 rào rào twisting and turning / involved and tricky
天机 tiān mystery known only to heaven (archaic) / inscrutable twist of fate / fig. top secret
花卷 huā juǎn Chinese steamed twisted bread roll


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