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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 be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to pay (money)
HSK 3
to control / to dominate / to allocate
HSK 5
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
to prop up / to support / strut / brace
HSK 6
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide
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
expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔,項|项) / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages
HSK 7-9
check (bank) / cheque / CL:
HSK 7-9
public expenditure
Liechtenstein
subfamily
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
clade (biology)
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
to help develop the border areas
disposable income
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
to hem and haw / to stall / to stammer / to mumble / to falter
to resist / to deal with
to respond evasively or vaguely / to elude / to stall
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
Indochina
to get an advance on one's pay
to advance funds
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
moral pillars / spiritual props
bronchial tube / bronchus
to deal with / to wait on / to provide for
detachment (of troops)
Liechtenstein (Tw)
to pay in advance / to get payment in advance
fulcrum (for a lever)
traveler's check
bronchitis
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
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
scattered and smashed (idiom)
overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
to send (sb) away / to change the subject / to open (an umbrella etc)
balance of payments
a gun / guns in general
program bringing education to underdeveloped areas / to work in such a program
language branch
to overspend
to support the front (military)
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
Barents Sea
checkbook (banking)
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
bronchiole
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
to withdraw (money)
tributary (river)
to be in straitened circumstances
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
subbranch of a bank
Alipay, online payment platform
bracket
to order (sb) around / to send on an errand; to send away
to give advice / to make a suggestion / to help out
variant of 肢解
abutment
bronchiolitis
support / stand / trivet / (cooking utensil) gridiron / (variant of 梔子|栀子) cape jasmine
plank (exercise)
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
branch or subdivision of a family
supporter
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
abbr. for 印度支那
to be unable to pay / unaffordable
Indo-Chinese epoch (geology) / Indosinian orogeny
(bird species of China) Indochinese green magpie (Cissa hypoleuca)
Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall)
(medicine) vascular stent; stent (used to keep a blood vessel open)
military spending
mainstay industry
to reduce spending / to cut spending
subject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
Mycoplasma pneumonia
break-even point
to be unable to endure
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Indochina (old term, esp. colonial period) / now written 中南半島|中南半岛
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)
affordability
low plank (yoga pose)
variant of 大月氏
to be able to pay / affordable
watt, unit of power used for electric bulbs

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