支
zhī HSK3

support, hold up

支 zhī
to prop up verbnoun
to erect; to set up; to hold up with a physical support; to support a physical structure
to pay or draw nounverb
to pay out, spend, or draw money; to receive or take payment
[long thin objects] measure word
classifier for long thin things like pens, pencils, or rifles; also for songs, music, army divisions, and wattage of light bulbs

这支笔不是普通的笔。

zhè zhī bǐ bù​shì pǔ​tōng de bǐ.

This pen is no ordinary pen.

to dispatch verbnoun
to send away; to put somebody off; to dispatch; to assign or command
to sustain verb
to bear; to endure; to withstand; to hold up under pressure
branch noun
(bound form) branch; offshoot; side stream; a division of a larger organization or system
to protrude
to protrude; to stick out; to raise or cock upward, such as ears
earthly branch
(bound form) refers to the twelve Earthly Branches, used for timekeeping and cyclic dating
Zhi
a surname
radical
Kangxi radical 65 (branch)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
437th most common 500.3 per million
Movie subtitles
563rd most common 249.7 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
99.0 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
143.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+652F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)