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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
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
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
to pay in advance / to get payment in advance
a gun / guns in general
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
to get an advance on one's pay
to save on expenditure
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
abbr. for 印度支那
to advance funds
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
language branch
(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
cecum
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
military spending
to be unable to endure
balance of payments
de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture
public expenditure
variant of 大月氏
overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch
clade (biology)
Utrecht
Utrecht, city in Netherlands
to reduce spending / to cut spending
to overspend


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