支撑 (zhīcheng) means Prop up (support - maintain). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
信念 支撑 他走到了今天。
Xìnniàn zhīchēng tā zǒu dào le jīntiān.
Conviction has sustained him to this day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支撑
几根柱子 支撑 着整个屋顶。
Jǐ gēn zhùzi zhīchēngzhe zhěnggè wūdǐng.
A few pillars support the whole roof.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支撑
信念 支撑 他走过了最难的日子。
Xìnniàn zhīchēng tā zǒu guò le zuì nán de rìzi.
Conviction carried him through the hardest days.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 信念
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How is 支撑 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 支撑 (zhīcheng, "Prop up (support - maintain)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 支撑 an HSK word?
Yes — 支撑 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 支撑?
The dictionary page for 支撑 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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