托
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to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm; sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest); (bound form) a shill; to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托[tuo1]); torr (unit of pressure)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 手 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 托
- Common rank
- #390
- Unicode
- U+6258
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 托 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Using one's hands 扌 for support 乇; 乇 also provides the pronunciation
Components 扌 乇
How to remember it
entrust · Heisig RSH #1424
fingers + fur ball
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 托
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布里斯托尔 | Bristol port city in southwest England | |
| 托罗斯山 | Taurus mountains of south Turkey | |
| 罗斯托克 | Rostock (city in Germany) | |
| 托马斯 | Thomas (male name) | |
| 托拉斯 | trust (commerce) (loanword) | |
| 托拉尔 | (loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007; tolar, silver coin that served as the ma… | |
| 反托拉斯 | antitrust (loanword) | |
| 托尔金 | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord… | |
| 布里斯托 | Bristol | |
| 托卡马克 | (physics) (loanword) tokamak | |
| 托里县 | Toli, a county in Tacheng Prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[Ta3 cheng2 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 波托马克河 | Potomac River | |
| 安纳托利亚 | Anatolia; Asia Minor | |
| 马尼托巴 | Manitoba province, Canada | |
| 普利托里亚 | Pretoria, capital of South Africa (Tw) | |
| 罗斯托夫 | Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the … | |
| 托木尔 | Mt Tomur (Russian: Pik Pobeda), the highest peak of Tianshan mountains on the border betwe… | |
| 萨克拉门托 | Sacramento | |
| 托生 | to be reincarnated; to be reborn | |
| 托儿 | childcare |