Chinese
支付
/ʈ͡ʂɻ̩⁵⁵ fu⁵¹/
to pay
- HSK 3
- TOCFL 7
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Origin
Not related to 支(し)払(はら)う (shiharau, “to pay”).
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Lineage
- characterChinese支 “to support; to bear; to sustain”
- ideaChinese又 “again; once more”
- ideaChinese竹 “bamboo (Classifier: 枝; 棵 m; 根 m; 轆／辘 c)”
- characterChinese付 “to give; to deliver; to hand over”
- ideaChinese人 “man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)”
- ideaChinese寸 “Legally defined as the tsun of 3.71475 cm.”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Written form — n/a
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 支付