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HSK
to pay (money)
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
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
HSK 3
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
to control / to dominate / to allocate
HSK 5
to prop up / to support / strut / brace
HSK 6
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide
HSK 7-9
expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔,項|项) / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages
HSK 7-9
mainstay / pillar / prop / backbone
HSK 7-9
(banking) to overdraw / to take out an overdraft / an overdraft / to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue) / (old) to draw one's wage in advance / (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc) / to damage a natural resource through overuse
HSK 7-9
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
check (bank) / cheque / CL:
HSK 7-9
Alipay, online payment platform
branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
branch store
subbranch of a bank
to pay in advance / to get payment in advance
abutment
Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall)
detachment (of troops)
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
a gun / guns in general
scattered and smashed (idiom)
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
branch secretary / secretary of a branch of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth League / abbr. for 支部書記|支部书记
to withdraw (money)
tributary (river)
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
Liechtenstein
to hem and haw / to stall / to stammer / to mumble / to falter
program bringing education to underdeveloped areas / to work in such a program
fulcrum (for a lever)
to get an advance on one's pay
branch or subdivision of a family
to give advice / to make a suggestion / to help out
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
to resist / to deal with
to respond evasively or vaguely / to elude / to stall
to save on expenditure
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
to order (sb) around / to send on an errand; to send away
to be in straitened circumstances
to deal with / to wait on / to provide for
to support the front (military)
to help develop the border areas
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
abbr. for 印度支那
branching root / rootlet
subfamily
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
language branch
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
to advance funds
moral pillars / spiritual props
supporter
(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
Indochina
bronchitis
support / stand / trivet / (cooking utensil) gridiron / (variant of 梔子|栀子) cape jasmine
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)
Liechtenstein (Tw)
traveler's check
to be able to pay / affordable
Mycoplasma pneumonia
disposable income
level of support
support level / popularity rating
bracket
subject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
Barents Sea
cecum
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
Balochistan (Pakistan)
military spending
to be unable to endure
a water goblin in Chinese mythology usually depicted as a monkey
Indochina (old term, esp. colonial period) / now written 中南半島|中南半岛
to be unable to pay / unaffordable
subsidiary / branch
checkbook (banking)
variant of 肢解
break-even point
blank check
(medicine) vascular stent; stent (used to keep a blood vessel open)
Indochina (abbr. for colonial term 印度支那半島|印度支那半岛) / (now written 中南半島|中南半岛)
balance of payments
plank (exercise)
to send sb away (with an excuse)
power or force to dominate

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