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支出

zhī chū

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

支出 (zhī chū) means "to spend; to pay out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 支出 means

1. to spend; to pay out
2. expenses; expenditure

The characters in 支出

• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield

Example sentences

• 生活支出急剧上涨。
  Shēnghuó zhīchū jíjù shàngzhǎng.
  Living costs have increased rapidly.
• 老龄化的人口需要更多医疗保健支出。
  Lǎolínghuà de rénkǒu xūyào gèng duō yīliáobǎojiàn zhīchū.
  An aging population will require more spending on health care.

Where 支出 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhī chū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.