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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 pay (money)
HSK 3
to be in favor of / to support / to back / support / backing / to stand by / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to control / to dominate / to allocate
HSK 5
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
to provide assistance / to support / to back
HSK 6
to prop up / to support / strut / brace
HSK 6
check (bank) / cheque / CL:
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
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *支* | 支* | *支
surname Zhi
to hem and haw / to stall / to stammer / to mumble / to falter
trestle; support; stand; frame / (medicine) stent / to prop up / to resist; to withstand (an enemy attack etc)
Indochina
to advance funds
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
Liechtenstein
phonetic transcription of China (Japanese: Shina), colonial term, generally considered discriminatory
bronchial tube / bronchus
to deal with / to wait on / to provide for
detachment (of troops)
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
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)
moral pillars / spiritual props
balance of payments
a gun / guns in general
to help develop the border areas
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
language branch
to overspend
to support the front (military)
fragmented / disorganized / incoherent
abbr. for 印度支那
Barents Sea
disposable income
checkbook (banking)
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
to get an advance on one's pay
branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party
to save on expenditure
bronchiole
lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom) / fig. one is helpless alone
tributary (river)
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
to resist / to deal with
to respond evasively or vaguely / to elude / to stall
to be in straitened circumstances
(idiom) to talk in a roundabout way to cover up the truth / evasive
subbranch of a bank
to withdraw (money)
Alipay, online payment platform
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
support level / popularity rating
plank (exercise)
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
subfamily
branch or subdivision of a family
supporter
branch store
program bringing education to underdeveloped areas / to work in such a program
de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
(bird species of China) Indochinese green magpie (Cissa hypoleuca)
Mycoplasma (parasitic bacteria without cell wall)
public expenditure
(medicine) vascular stent; stent (used to keep a blood vessel open)
mainstay industry
to reduce spending / to cut spending
subject to (foreign domination, emotions etc)
Mycoplasma pneumonia
bracket
power or force to dominate
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)
Indo-Chinese epoch (geology) / Indosinian orogeny
affordability
low plank (yoga pose)

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