支

See also 攴

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

支 (radical 65 支+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 十水 (JE), four-corner 4040₇)

1. disperse, pay
2. support
3. branch

Derived characters

• 技 鼓 (Index:Chinese radical/鼓)

See also

• 攴 (graphically similar, appears as variant, as in 鼓, 鼔)

References

• KangXi: page 467, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13061
• Dae Jaweon: page 814, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1327, character 14
• Unihan data for U+652F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

支 (Yale ji1)

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Japanese

Kanji

支 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. little pieces separated; a branch
2. hands and legs

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: ささえる (sasaeru), えだ (eda), つかえる (tsukaeru)
• Nazuke: えだ (eda), なか (naka), もろ (moro), ゆた (yuta)

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Korean

Hanja

支 (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

支 (pinyin zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles chih¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

支 (jiɛ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

支 (chi, chề, xê, chia, giê, xài)