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

expenditures / expenses / CL: 筆｜笔, 項｜项 / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages

surname Zhi

branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide

cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure

(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

a gun / guns in general

balance of payments

clade (biology)

(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) / (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)

overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch

to advance funds

the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥, used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc

abbr. for 印度支那

to overspend

Utrecht

the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle

to pay in advance / to get payment in advance

to save on expenditure

de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture

to get an advance on one's pay

to be unable to endure

the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)

public expenditure

military spending

language branch

Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)

cecum

lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone

Utrecht, city in Netherlands

to reduce spending / to cut spending

the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)

the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)

variant of 大月氏