HSK 6 · Money

开支 kāizhī “expenses” in Chinese

Traditional 開支

What 开支 means

  1. expenses
  2. expenditure
  3. to pay (expenses)
  4. expenditures
  5. to spend money
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (coll.) to pay wages

How to say 开支

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale支zhī1st tone, high and level

开支 in a sentence

  1. 我这个月要减少开支。

    Wǒ zhè ge yuè yào jiǎnshǎo kāizhī.

    I need to cut back on spending this month.

    Sentence #351246 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这与减少开支无关。

    Zhè yǔ jiǎnshǎo kāizhī wúguān.

    This has nothing to do with cutting costs.

    Sentence #13180316 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 政府的开支有些过头了。

    Zhèngfǔ de kāizhī yǒuxiē guòtóu le.

    Government spending is getting a bit excessive.

    Sentence #2307199 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 开支 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

The character 支 (zhī) with each of its parts in a different colour
支zhīto support
  • 十ten · shí
  • 又again · yòu

How to write 开支

开 4 strokes · 支 4 strokes

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开支 (kāizhī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 开支 (kāizhī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 开支

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

Words with 支

支持zhīchí · to support支zhī · measure word for pens支票zhīpiào · cheque支撑zhīchēng · to support支配zhīpèi · to control支援zhīyuán · to support支出zhīchū · expenditure支流zhīliú · tributary (river)支柱zhīzhù · pillar

More words: Money & Economy

精打细算jīngdǎxìsuàn · careful budgeting经费jīngfèi · funds金融jīnróng · finance集团jítuán · group亏损kuīsǔn · loss (financial)连锁liánsuǒ · chain (store etc.)流通liútōng · to circulate垄断lǒngduàn · monopoly

FAQs

开支 (kāizhī) means “expenses” or “expenditure”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāizhī: kāi with a 1st tone, then zhī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 开支 is written 開支. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaizhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开支 from the suggestions. Typing kaizhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开支 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.