收支

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 今年公司收支平衡。▶ —
   The company broke even this year.
2. 他每月记录家庭收支。▶ —
   He records household income and expenses each month.

Collocations

Mnemonic

收 shōu "to take in" + 支 zhī "to pay out": income that comes in and expenditure that goes out, i.e. balance of income and expenditure. Same as the Korean word su-ji (收支). It pairs the antonyms 收 "take in" and 支 "pay out" to span all money in and out (收支平衡 a balanced budget). 收 means "to take in" (收入, 收获); 支 means "to pay out" (支出, 支付). It views income and expenditure together.

Related

Quick check

1. What is the relation of the characters in 收支?

   • 收 "income" ↔ 支 "expenditure", antonyms
   • both "income"
   • both "expenditure"
   • same sound only