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HSK
to pay (money)
HSK 3
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 control / to dominate / to allocate
HSK 5
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
check (bank) / cheque / CL:
HSK 7-9
Alipay, online payment platform
branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide
HSK 7-9
break-even point
to reduce spending / to cut spending
to prop up / to support / strut / brace
HSK 6
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
to deal with / to wait on / to provide for
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔,項|项) / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages
HSK 7-9
to save on expenditure
supporter
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
traveler's check
overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
authority to dispose of sth
public expenditure
subbranch of a bank
to be able to pay / affordable
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)
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
subsidiary / branch
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
support level / popularity rating
to resist / to deal with
to respond evasively or vaguely / to elude / to stall
to be unable to pay / unaffordable
military spending
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
bronchitis
Utrecht, city in Netherlands
to be in straitened circumstances
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)
scattered and smashed (idiom)
plank (exercise)
balance of payments
mainstay / pillar / prop / backbone
HSK 7-9
Indochina
a gun / guns in general
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
checkbook (banking)
to get an advance on one's pay
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
mainstay industry
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
tributary (river)
to break even / balance between income and expenditure
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
abbr. for 印度支那
to hem and haw / to stall / to stammer / to mumble / to falter
blank check
bronchial tube / bronchus
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
to support the front (military)
Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall)
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
(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
moral pillars / spiritual props
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
detachment (of troops)
to be unable to endure
affordability
to withdraw (money)
fulcrum (for a lever)
to send (sb) away / to change the subject / to open (an umbrella etc)
to overspend
to pay in advance / to get payment in advance
subject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
subsystem
to help develop the border areas
bronchiole
Indo-Chinese epoch (geology) / Indosinian orogeny
branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
to order (sb) around / to send on an errand; to send away
to support terrorism / abbr. for 支持恐怖主義|支持恐怖主义
lit. branches and descendants / of a similar kind / related
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
branching root / rootlet
(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
branch or subdivision of a family
Mycoplasma pneumonia
have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
program bringing education to underdeveloped areas / to work in such a program
Barents Sea
watt, unit of power used for electric bulbs
bracket
Utrecht
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
power or force to dominate

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