折节读书 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 折節讀書 zhéjiédúshū ㄓㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄉㄨˊ ㄕㄨ to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom) Character by character 折(zhé)break 节(jié)joint 读(dú)read out 书(shū)book A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0