(zhī) - support, prop up, branch in Mandarin
zhīTraditional: 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
支
Examples
。
Thanks for your support.
。
He paid the fee.
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This is a branch of the company.
帐篷。
He set up a tent.
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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).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 支.
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