整敕支
整 zheng3 upright in good order zheng - phonetic below is also semantic semantic above.
敕 chi4 imperial orders chi : bound sheaf (of papers, normally of branches tho) on the left, phonetic on the right also indicates the idea of the power of the emperor (hand+hammer)
支zhi1 support, upright; zhi1 hand+hammer. It's rarely used alone and then mostly in grammatical constructions e.g. when discussing Chinese orthography SO FAR AS I CAN SEE.
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