支

支 (Kangxi radical 65, 支+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 十水 (JE), four-corner 4040₇, composition ⿱十又)

1. Kangxi radical #65, ⽀.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/支
• 伎, 吱, 𭍾, 妓, 𪦶, 岐, 𢎼, 𫹍, 忮, 技, 汥, 𨸠, 𨑤, 枝, 歧, 𭮂, 𣲰, 𭸷, 䃽, 肢, 𤯙, 𭻁, 𤽑, 𥄏, 𥑂, 秓, 衼, 𥸳, 𥾣, 翄, 𦧉, 𦨟, 蚑, 𧣄, 䚳(𬣛), 豉, 𧹛, 䞚, 跂, 𨈛, 䡋, 䣫, 𮡏, 𨱜, 鈘, 𩉨, 𩚡, 鼓, 𦷨, 馶, 𩨝, 䰙, 鬾, 𩵾
• 𠚽, 𨙸, 𨙾, 㲍, 翅, 𢻈, 䧴, 頍(𫠆), 鳷(𫛛), 𥽤, 𥁈, 芰, 𩂏, 𡰸, 庋, 㽻, 䅩, 𣿯

• 鼓 (Appendix:Chinese radical/鼓)

• 𛀦

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

Historical forms of the character 支
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 又 (“hand”) + 十 (“(half of 竹) branch of bamboo”) – a hand breaking off a branch of bamboo.

支

1. to support; to bear; to sustain
2. to disburse; to pay; to defray
3. to prop up; to put up
4. to send away; to put off somebody
5. branch; limb; offshoot; subdivision

   alt. forms: 枝

6. a surname
7. Classifier for long, thin objects. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   alt. forms: 枝

8. Classifier for songs or musical pieces.

   唱支歌嚟聽下吖！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   唱支歌嚟听下吖！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   coeng³ zi¹ go¹ lai⁴ teng¹ haa⁵ aa¹! [Jyutping]

   Sing a song for us!

9. (now usually derogatory and offensive) Short for 支那 (Zhīnà, “China”).

   印支  ―  Yìnzhī  ―  Indochina

   日滿支親善／日满支亲善  ―  Rì Mǎn Zhī qīnshàn  ―  friendship among Japan, Manchuria and China

   支語警察／支语警察  ―  zhī yǔ jǐngchá  ―  (Taiwan, Internet slang) people who like to correct or criticize the use of Mainland terms (literally, “Chink language police”)

10. (～日) (telegraphy) the fourth day of a month

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01715
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00006-003
• “支”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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

• Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: えだ (eda, 支); ささえる (sasaeru, 支える, Jōyō)^{←ささへる (sasaferu, 支へる, historical)}; つかえる (tsukaeru, 支える)^{←つかへる (tukaferu, 支へる, historical)}
• Nanori: なか (naka); もろ (moro); ゆた (yuta)

• 支(し)払(はら)う (shiharau)

支(し) • (shi) 

1. (obsolete) China; Chinese
   • 1923, 在米國華盛頓州シアトル市米國西北部聯絡日本人會, 米國西北部在留日本人發展略史 (Beikoku Seihoku-bu Zairyū Nihonjin Hatten Ryakushi) [A Brief History of the Development of the Resident Japanese in the Northwest of America]‎, page 4:

     日(につ)支(し)人々口分布統計(じんじんこうぶんぷとうけい)

     Nisshijin jinkō bunpu tōkei

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• 中(ちゅう) (chū)

支 (eumhun 지탱할 지 (jitaenghal ji))

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支: Hán Nôm readings: chi

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