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

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

surname Zhi

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

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

clade (biology)

balance of payments

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

to be unable to endure

to pay in advance / to get payment in advance

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

to overspend

to save on expenditure

overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch

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)

to advance funds

to get an advance on one's pay

Utrecht

military spending

Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)

language branch

cecum

public expenditure

to reduce spending / to cut spending

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

de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture

Utrecht, city in Netherlands

abbr. for 印度支那

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

variant of 大月氏

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)