TSUMUGU · A2 (est.) · 字
折
折 ＝ 扌 ＋ 斤
ㄓㄜˊ · zhé
verb — to snap, break; to fold; to discount
字源 FORM — what the parts do
扌義a hand — worn from a pair of cut sprouts in the old graph
An axe (斤) on the right, and on the left what reads now as a hand (扌) — once two cut stalks of grass, sheared through. The axe brings down the cut: to snap, to break clean. From breaking, the bend at the break — to fold; and from cutting a price, the discount: 折斷、對折、打折.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一斧（斤）落下，啪地砍斷（扌）——折。
The axe (斤) comes down and snaps it clean through (扌) — break.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)折斷、斷折— to snap, break常用
→對折、折疊— to fold常用
⇒折扣、打折— a discount, to mark down常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension