支
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
zhī zhi1
- to support
- to sustain
- to erect
- to raise
- branch
- division
- to draw money
- classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
- surname Zhi
Example sentences
- There's a telephone in my room.
HSK words with 支
- 支持 zhīchí to be in favor of
- 支付 zhīfù to pay (money)
- 支配 zhīpèi to control
- 支出 zhīchū to spend; to pay out
- 支援 zhīyuán to provide assistance
- 支撑 zhīchēng to prop up
- 开支 kāizhī expenditures
- 支票 zhīpiào check (bank)
- 支柱 zhīzhù mainstay
- 分支 fēnzhī branch (of company, river etc)
- 收支 shōuzhī cash flow
- 透支 tòuzhī (banking) to overdraw
- 支流 zhīliú tributary (river)