Tā yòng yì zhāng zhǐ zhé chū le yì zhī xǔxǔrúshēng de qiānzhǐhè.
He folded a lifelike paper crane from a single sheet.
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culture
Although the art form is most famously associated with Japan (Japanese 折り紙), paper folding originated in China alongside the invention of paper itself. The Japanese 千羽鶴 (one thousand cranes) tradition has been adopted in Chinese as 千纸鹤.
memory
折 (zhé, to fold) + 纸 (zhǐ, paper) = "fold-paper." The 折 is read zhé here; same character read shé means "to break," and zhē means "to flip over."
