支持
zhī chí 1–2
to be in favor of; to support; to back; support; backing; to stand by
- Characters
- 2
- 支 · 持
- Syllables
- 2
- zhī chí
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 546
Part of speech: v,vn
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我支持你。
Wǒ zhī chí nǐ
I'm on your side.
没人支持她。
Méi rén zhī chí tā
Nobody supported her.
民主支持自由。
Mín zhǔ zhī chí zì yóu
Democracy encourages freedom.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 支持. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 保持bǎo chíHSK 3
to keep; to maintain; to hold; to preserve
- 坚持jiān chíHSK 3
to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- 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
- 持续chí xùHSK 3
to continue; to persist; to last; sustainable; preservation
- 维持wéi chíHSK 4
to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- 支付zhī fùHSK 3
to pay (money)
- 主持人zhǔ chí rénHSK 6
TV or radio presenter; host; anchor
- 主持zhǔ chíHSK 3
to take charge of; to manage or direct; to preside over; to uphold; to stand for (justice etc); to host (a TV or radio program etc); (TV) anchor
- 持chíHSK 7
to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- 持有chí yǒuHSK 6
to hold (passport, views etc)
- 支援zhī yuánHSK 6
to provide assistance; to support; to back
- 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
- 支票zhī piàoHSK 7
check (bank); cheque
- 持久chí jiǔHSK 7
lasting; enduring; persistent; permanent; protracted; endurance; persistence; to last long
- 支柱zhī zhùHSK 7
mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone
- 劫持jié chíHSK 7
to kidnap; to hijack; to abduct; to hold under duress
- 扶持fú chíHSK 7
to help; to assist
- 分支fēn zhīHSK 7
branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide
- 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
- 坚持不懈jiān chí bù xièHSK 7
to persevere unremittingly (idiom); to keep going until the end