ReadWriteQuiz
Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.support; sustain; bear
支援
aid
体力不支
too weak physically to stand it
乐不可支
overwhelmed with joy
- 2
v.pay or draw (money)
开支
pay expenses
透支
overdraw
支出
expenditure
- 3
n.branch; offshoot
支队
detachment
支流
tributary
支线
branch line
- 4
v.prop/put up; erect; set up
帮我支帐篷。
Help me put up a tent.
用柱子支住平台。
Hold a platform by pillars.
把伞支开晾一晾。
Put up an umbrella to dry it.
synonym
- 5
v.send away; put somebody off
支嘴
order somebody about
支走
dismiss
支开
send sb away with an excuse
- 6
measure word(for long, thin, inflexible objects)
一支箭
an arrow
- 7
v.protrude; raise
支耳朵
prick up its or one's ears
- 8
n.twelve earthly branches (used in combination with the heavenly stems to designate years, months, days and hours)
地支
heavenly stems and earthly branches
- 9
n.Zhi, a surname
Words and phrases with 支
- 支局[word]branch office
- 支农[word]supply the needs of agriculture
- 支前[word]support the front
- 支开[word]put aside
- 支离[word]be fragmented/broken/disorganized; trivial and jumbled
- 支出[word]disburse; expenditure
- 支气管肺炎[word]bronchial pneumonia
- 支教[word]support education in poor areas
- 支部[word]branch of political parties or organizations; grass-roots branch of the Chinese Communist Party
- 支支吾吾[idiom]hesitate in speaking
- 支离破碎[idiom]be all broken up
- 支吾其词[idiom]equivocate