Chinese symbol for “expenditures”

开支

kāi zhī

Traditional: 開支

expenditures; expenses (笔 (bǐ),项 (xiàng)); to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages

The closest CC-CEDICT match for expenditures is 开支 (kāi zhī), defined as: expenditures; expenses (笔 (bǐ),项 (xiàng)); to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages.

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Characters and stroke order

开 kāi

to open; to start, to initiate, to begin

radical 55 ⼶ · 4 strokes

支 zhī

to support, to sustain; to withdraw, to pay; a branch (of a bank)

radical 65 ⽀ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

開 kāi

Other Chinese words for “expenditures”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
用项 (用項)	yòng xiàng	items of expenditure; expenditures

Related words

Other words that share a character with 开支.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
开始 (開始)	kāi shǐ	to begin; to start; beginning; start
开发 (開發)	kāi fā	to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
离开 (離開)	lí kāi	to depart; to leave
公开 (公開)	gōng kāi	open; overt; public; to make public; to release
开放 (開放)	kāi fàng	to bloom; to open
召开 (召開)	zhào kāi	to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke
支持	zhī chí	to be in favor of; to support
支付	zhī fù	to pay (money)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.