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托

tuō

1. prop

2. support (for weight)

3. rest (e.g. arm rest)

4. thanks to

5. to hold in one's hand

6. to support in one's palm

7. to give

8. to base

9. to commit

10. to set

11. Torr (unit of pressure)

Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 6 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

to raise, to support; to entrust, to rely on

Compound Words (20)

faking a modern object as an ancient one

full-time care (of children in a boarding nursery)

to be entrusted

to entrust a task to sb else

to request assistance

Quito, capital of Ecuador, usually written as [[基多]]

to have sb look after sb

Alternate Entries

to trust / to entrust / to be entrusted with / to act as trustee

Metadata

Category: Chinese
HSK Character Level: 5
Character Frequency Rank: 798
Word Frequency Rank: 608 of 84,292