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支撑

zhī chēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 支撐

支撑 (zhī chēng) means "to prop up". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 支撑 means

1. to prop up
2. to support
3. strut
4. brace

The characters in 支撑

• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
• 撑chēngto support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole

Example sentences

• 日本的经济是由一群勤奋工作的大城市上班族支撑起的。
  Rìběn de jīngjì shì yóu yī qún qínfèn gōngzuò de dàchéngshì shàngbānzú zhīchēng qǐ de.
  Japan has an economy that is supported by hard-working company employees in big cities.
• 政府官员表示，没有证据支撑中国学生可能是无意中传播病毒的人的观点。
  Zhèngfǔ guānyuán biǎoshì, méiyǒu zhèngjù zhīchēng Zhōngguó xuésheng kěnéng shì wúyì zhōng chuánbō bìngdú de rén de guāndiǎn.
  Government officials say there’s no evidence to support the suggestion that Chinese students may be the ones inadvertently spreading the virus.

Words starting with 支撑

• 支撑架zhī chēng jiàbracket

Words containing 支撑

• 平板支撑píng bǎn zhī chēngplank (exercise)
• 四肢支撑式sì zhī zhī chēng shìlow plank (yoga pose)

Where 支撑 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 chēng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.