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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
branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide
HSK 7-9
to prop up / to support / strut / brace
HSK 6
expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔,項|项) / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages
HSK 7-9
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
military spending
Alipay, online payment platform
supporter
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
traveler's check
subbranch of a bank
to be able to pay / affordable
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
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
balance of payments
bronchitis
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
mainstay / pillar / prop / backbone
HSK 7-9
Indochina
break-even point
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)
overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
authority to dispose of sth
scattered and smashed (idiom)
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)
tributary (river)
to break even / balance between income and expenditure
abbr. for 印度支那
to hem and haw / to stall / to stammer / to mumble / to falter
blank check
public expenditure
to support the front (military)
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
fulcrum (for a lever)
Utrecht, city in Netherlands
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
(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
to reduce spending / to cut spending
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
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)
mainstay industry
to be unable to endure
Indochina (old term, esp. colonial period) / now written 中南半島|中南半岛
affordability
to withdraw (money)
Barents Sea
plank (exercise)
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
to save on expenditure
to overspend
subject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
to help develop the border areas
(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
Indo-Chinese epoch (geology) / Indosinian orogeny
bracket
branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
detachment (of troops)
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
a gun / guns in general
bronchiolitis
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
Mycoplasma pneumonia
branching root / rootlet
bronchial tube / bronchus
to pay in advance / to get payment in advance
branch or subdivision of a family
lit. branches and descendants / of a similar kind / related
program bringing education to underdeveloped areas / to work in such a program
watt, unit of power used for electric bulbs
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
to advance funds
bronchiole
Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall)
power or force to dominate
Balochistan (Pakistan)
level of support
to send (sb) away / to change the subject / to open (an umbrella etc)
Liechtenstein
abutment
language branch
to be in straitened circumstances

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