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支

zhī

HSK 5 Character

What 支 means

1. to support
2. to sustain
3. to erect
4. to raise
5. branch
6. division
7. to draw money
8. classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

Other readings

支 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zhīsurname Zhi

Example sentences

• 我支持你。
  I'm on your side.
• 我有十支笔。
  I have ten pens.
• 没人支持她。
  Nobody supported her.
• 你拥有枪支吗？
  Nǐ yōngyǒu qiāngzhī ma?
  Do you own a gun?
• 请买一支牙膏。
  Qǐng mǎi yī zhī yágāo.
  Please buy a tube of toothpaste.
• 这是一支铅笔。
  This is a pencil.

Words starting with 支

• 支持zhī chíto be in favor of; to support; to back
• 支票zhī piàocheck (bank); cheque
• 支撑zhī chēngto prop up; to support; strut
• 支出zhī chūto spend; to pay out; expenses; expenditure
• 支援zhī yuánto provide assistance; to support; to back
• 支配zhī pèito control; to dominate; to allocate
• 支柱zhī zhùmainstay; pillar; prop
• 支流zhī liútributary (river)
• 支付zhī fùto pay (money)
• 支教zhī jiàoprogram bringing education to underdeveloped areas; to work in such a program
• 支持者zhī chí zhěsupporter
• 支队zhī duìdetachment (of troops)
• 支部zhī bùbranch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
• 支书zhī shūbranch secretary; secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth…
• 支离破碎zhī lí pò suìscattered and smashed (idiom)
• 支行zhī hángsubbranch of a bank
• 支架zhī jiàtrestle; support; stand; frame; (medicine) stent; to prop up
• 支线zhī xiànbranch line; side road; spur
• 支那Zhī nàphonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered…
• 支支吾吾zhī zhī wú wúto hem and haw; to stall; to stammer
• 支点zhī diǎnfulcrum (for a lever)
• 支吾zhī wuto respond evasively or vaguely; to elude; to stall
• 支持率zhī chí lǜsupport level; popularity rating
• 支取zhī qǔto withdraw (money)

Words containing 支

• 开支kāi zhīexpenditures; expenses; to spend money; (colloquial) to pay wages
• 收支shōu zhīcash flow; financial balance; income and expenditure
• 分支fēn zhībranch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge
• 透支tòu zhī(banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft
• 枪支qiāng zhīa gun; guns in general
• 乐不可支lè bù kě zhīoverjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
• 地支dì zhīthe 12 earthly branches 子
• 超支chāo zhīto overspend
• 预支yù zhīto pay in advance; to get payment in advance
• 不支bù zhīto be unable to endure
• 月支Yuè zhīthe Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏
• 公共开支gōng gòng kāi zhīpublic expenditure
• 国际收支guó jì shōu zhībalance of payments
• 语支yǔ zhīlanguage branch
• 军费开支jūn fèi kāi zhīmilitary spending
• 小支气管xiǎo zhī qì guǎnbronchiole
• 干支gān zhīthe ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; sexagenary cycle
• 受支配shòu zhī pèisubject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
• 旅行支票lǚ xíng zhī piàotraveler's check
• 空头支票kōng tóu zhī piàobounced check; bad check; (idiom) empty promise
• 可支配收入kě zhī pèi shōu rùdisposable income
• 节支jié zhīto save on expenditure
• 可支付性kě zhī fù xìngaffordability
• 转移支付zhuǎn yí zhī fùtransfer payment…

Characters that look like 支

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 友yǒufriend
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband

Sounds the same

Read zhī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 之(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 知to know; to be aware
• 汁juice
• 织to weave; to knit
• 脂fat; rouge (cosmetics); resin
• 枝branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
• 肢limb
• 芝Zoysia pungens
• 吱(onomatopoeia) creaking or groaning
• 氏used in 月氏; used in 阏氏
• 祗respectful (ly)
• 只grain that has begun to ripen