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

surname Zhi

expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔[bi3],項|项[xiang4]); to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages

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

to pay in advance; to get payment in advance

(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

cash flow; financial balance; income and expenditure

to be unable to endure

to get an advance on one's pay

to list as an expenditure

abbr. for 印度支那[Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4]

the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc

to advance funds

the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝; sexagenary cycle

the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏[Yue4 zhi1])

(textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to mean thread count)

cecum

de-Sinicization and rejection of Han culture

to save on expenditure

language branch

to overspend

Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)

the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)

variant of 大月氏[Da4 Yue4 zhi1]

clade (biology)

lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom); fig. one is helpless alone

Utrecht

Utrecht, city in Netherlands

overjoyed (idiom); as pleased as punch

public expenditure

military spending

the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)

balance of payments

to reduce spending; to cut spending