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开支 (kāi zhī) — (noun) expenditure, expense (especially formal/organizational); (noun) an expense item (countable with 笔 or 项)

Definition

开支 is 'expenditure' in a formal, organizational or accounting sense (company, budget, annual report). More formal than 费用/开销; pairs with 收支 as the spending side of financial accounts.

noun
expenditureexpense (especially formal/organizational)an expense item (countable with 笔 or 项)
Measure word · 笔, 项

Examples

  • 开支。
    Gōng sī yào kòng zhì kāi zhī.
    The company must control expenses.
  • 开支。
    Jīn nián de kāi zhī bǐ qù nián duō le bù shǎo.
    This year's expenses are quite a bit more than last year's.
  • 开支。
    Zhè xiàng kāi zhī xū yào cái wù bù mén pī zhǔn.
    This expense item needs finance department approval.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

开kāipay out
支zhīpay; expense

开 and 支 both point to paying out, so together they denote expenditures.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 開; 开 is its simplified writing.

  • 門門méndoor
  • 一一yīlatch and/or wooden pole that shuts a door
  • 廾廾gǒnga pair of hands

The traditional form 開 shows 廾, a pair of hands, and 一, a latch or pole, inside 門, a door: hands opening a latched door. The simplified 开 is a shorthand form, so its parts are not the original pieces.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

支 pairs 又 (hand) with 十, a shortened form of 竹 (bamboo), to picture a bamboo branch.

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HSK 3.0 Level 7-9HSK 2.0 Level 6Money & Currency

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