托 tuō

to hold up with palm; to support, rely on

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DEFINITIONS

  • to hold up with palm
  • to support, rely on
  • prop
  • support (for weight)
  • rest (e.g. arm rest)
  • thanks to
  • to hold in one's hand
  • to support in one's palm
  • to give
  • to base
  • to commit
  • to set
  • torr (unit of pressure)
  • to trust
  • to entrust
  • to be entrusted with
  • to act as trustee
  • variant of 託|托[tuo1]

STROKES

托 stroke order diagram
托 stroke order animation

WORDS

托辞 tuō cí see 託詞|托词[tuo1 ci2]
枪托 qiāng tuō butt of a gun; stock
托尔斯泰 tuō ěr sī tài Tolstoy (name); Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
萨克拉门托 sà kè lā mén tuō Sacramento
托词 tuō cí to make an excuse; pretext; excuse
托勒密 tuō lè mì Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC; Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成; see also 托勒玫[Tuo1 le4 mei2]
托莱多 tuō lái duō Toledo, Spain
受托 shòu tuō to be entrusted; to be commissioned
布托 bù tuō Bhutto (name); Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq; Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996
托皮卡 tuō pí kǎ Topeka, capital of Kansas
委托书 wěi tuō shū commission; proxy; power of attorney; authorization; warrant
托拉斯 tuō lā sī trust (commerce) (loanword)
推托 tuī tuō to make excuses; to give an excuse (for not doing something)
摩托罗拉 mó tuō luó lā Motorola
托尔金 tuō ěr jīn J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
烘托 hōng tuō background (of a painting); backdrop; a foil (to set off something to advantage); to offset (something to advantage)
莫吉托 mò jí tuō Mojito
安纳托利亚 ān nà tuō lì yà Anatolia, Asia minor
托洛茨基 tuō luò cí jī Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940
托福 tuō fú TOEFL; Test of English as a Foreign Language; (old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
乌兰巴托 wū lán bā tuō Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
阿里斯托芬 ā lǐ sī tuō fēn Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
付托 fù tuō to entrust to
嘱托 zhǔ tuō to entrust a task to sb else
威奇托 wēi qí tuō Wichita (city in Kansas)
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