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支 (U+652F) "branch" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | zhī | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄓ | |||
Wade–Giles: | chih1 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | jī | |||
Jyutping: | zi1 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chi | |||
JapaneseKana: | シ shi (on'yomi) ささ-える sasa-eru (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 지 ji | |||
Names | ||||
Chinese name(s): | 支字旁 zhīzìpáng 支字底 zhīzìdǐ | |||
Japanese name(s): | 支える/ささえる 支繞/しにょう shinyō 枝繞/えだにょう edanyō 十又/じゅうまた jūmata | |||
Hangul: | 지탱할 jitaenghal | |||
Stroke order animation | ||||
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Radical 65 orradical branch (支部) meaning"branch" is one of the 34Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
支 is also the 65th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 支 |
+2 | 攰 |
+5 | 攱 |
+8 | 攲 |
+12 | 攳 |
In theJapanese educational system the character支 is aKyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.[1]