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(zhī) - support, prop up, branch in Mandarin

zhī

Traditional: 支

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Translation

support, prop up, branch

Word origin

An ideographic character showing a hand (又) holding a branch (十), giving the senses of a branch, to prop up and to support.

Origin
ideographic
Root
又 (hand) + 十 (branch)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 支

Examples

Thanks for your support.

He paid the fee.

This is a branch of the company.

zhàngpéng

He set up a tent.

The table was propped up by him.

支 (zhī) means to support or prop up, anchoring 支持 (zhīchí, support) and 支付 (zhīfù, pay).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 支.

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This word is part of lesson 107.