Chinese Character Wiki
支

zhī

support, hold up

Pictograph of a hand (又) lifting a piece of bamboo (个).

Components
个 iconic component

个  Iconic component

gè

  

[measure word]

Depicts a piece of bamboo.

又 iconic component

又  Iconic component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Depicts a hand.

Evolution

支 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
支 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
支 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

支  

zhī

disperse, pay; support; branch; to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions

支  

Zhī

surname Zhi

Most common words with 支
Freq.
Word
Meaning

支持

to support

支

to support

支付

to pay (money)

支票

cheque

支撑

to prop up

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

妓 伎

Sound component in 14 characters (3 verified)

技 枝 屐 翅 歧 肢 妓 吱 岐 庋 芰 豉 忮 跂

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

鼓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ke

tsye

zhī

support, hold up

*ke

tsye

zhī

branch (of tree), limb


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 63.7995% of movies

563rd most common character in movies

437th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+652F

Shuowen

“支，去竹之枝也。从手持半竹。，古文支。”


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