支

See also: 攴 and 枝

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

支	支
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		支

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chi
• Min Nan (POJ): ki / chi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chi
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki / chi
    • Tâi-lô: ki / tsi
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki³⁴/, /t͡ɕi³⁴/
  • Note: ki - vernacular, chi - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (支, reconstructed)
Character (支), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 章移切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕiᴇ/	/t͡ɕie̯/	/t͡ɕie/	/t͡ɕiɛ/	/ciə̆/	/t͡ɕǐe/	/t͡ɕjɛ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (支, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
支								zhī								‹ tsye ›								/*ke/								support, hold up
支								zhī								‹ tsye ›								/*ke/								branch (of tree), limb
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
支					17200					支					支					0					支					/*kje/

Compounds

• 支那 (Zhīnà)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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)
• Nanori: えだ (eda), なか (naka), もろ (moro), ゆた (yuta)

Derived terms

• 支払う (しはらう, shiharau)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

支 (chi, chề, xê, chia, giê, xài)

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