支付

Character by character

• 支zhī4 strokesHSK 3disperse, pay; support; branch
• 付fù5 strokesHSK 3give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 支付. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 支持zhī chíHSK 3

  to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by

• 支zhīHSK 3

  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

• 付fùHSK 3

  to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things

• 付出fù chūHSK 4

  to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time)

• 对付duì fuHSK 4

  to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)

• 支援zhī yuánHSK 6

  to provide assistance; to support; to back

• 应付yìng fuHSK 7

  to deal with; to cope

• 支撑zhī chēngHSK 6

  to prop up; to support; strut; brace

• 开支kāi zhīHSK 7

  expenditures; expenses; to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages

• 支配zhī pèiHSK 5

  to control; to dominate; to allocate

• 支出zhī chūHSK 5

  to spend; to pay out; expenses; expenditure

• 付费fù fèiHSK 7

  to pay; to cover the costs

• 支票zhī piàoHSK 7

  check (bank); cheque

• 付款fù kuǎnHSK 7

  to pay a sum of money; payment

• 支柱zhī zhùHSK 7

  mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone

• 分支fēn zhīHSK 7

  branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide

• 交付jiāo fùHSK 7

  to hand over; to deliver

• 收支shōu zhīHSK 7

  cash flow; financial balance; income and expenditure

• 透支tòu zhīHSK 7

  (banking) to overdraw; to take out an overdraft; an overdraft; to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue); (old) to draw one's wage in advance; (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc); to damage a natural resource through overuse

• 托付tuō fùHSK 7

  to entrust

• 支流zhī liú

  tributary (river)