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Mythic Mandarin

支 (zhī): meaning and stroke order

支 (zhī) means to support, to sustain, to erect, to raise, branch, division, to draw money.

支

Simplified
支
Traditional
支 (same form)
Pinyin
zhī

Stroke order of 支

支

  • Zhī surname Zhi
  • zhī to support; to sustain
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 支

  1. zhī
    • 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
  2. Zhī
    • surname Zhi

Radical and structure

支
Radical 支 (Kangxi radical 65) · 4 strokes · 十 on top, 又 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 支

支 in our stories

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  • 他拿起一支笔，在白板上画了三个圈，用最简单的话讲了自己的想法。

    tā ná qǐ yì zhī bǐ zài báibǎn shàng huà le sān gè quān yòng zuì jiǎndān de huà jiǎng le zìjǐ de xiǎngfǎ

    He picked up a pen, drew three circles on the whiteboard and explained his idea in the simplest words he could.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

  • 他想，反正也没时间拍视频了，干脆一边干活一边直播，就把手机支在了厨房的角落里。

    tā xiǎng fǎnzhèng yě méi shíjiān pāi shìpín le gāncuì yìbiān gànhuó yìbiān zhíbō jiù bǎ shǒujī zhī zài le chúfáng de jiǎoluò lǐ

    He thought that since he had no time to film anyway, he might as well livestream while he worked, so he propped his phone up in a corner of the kitchen.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 支

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).