托

See also: 託 and 乇

Translingual

Han character

托 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 手竹心 (QHP), four-corner 5201₄, composition ⿰扌乇)

1. to hold up with one's palm
2. to support, rely on

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 417, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11793
• Dae Jaweon: page 764, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1830, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6258

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Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		托
simp. #		托

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuō (tuo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuō
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻo¹
    • Yale: twō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuo
    • Palladius: то (to)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tok³
    • Yale: tok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: tog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːk̚³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 托
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰuo²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/tʰuo⁴⁴/ 委～ /tʰuo²⁴/ ～著
	Tianjin	/tʰuo²¹/
	Jinan	/tʰuə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/tʰuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰuo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/tʰuo²¹/
	Xining	/tʰu⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/tʰuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰuə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/tʰuɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/tʰuo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/tʰo³¹/
	Guiyang	/tʰo²¹/
	Kunming	/tʰo³¹/
	Nanjing	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/tʰuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰuaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/tʰʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/tʰuaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/tʰoʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/tʰo²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/tʰo⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/tʰo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/tʰo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰɔʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʰok̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰɔk̚³/
	Nanning	/tʰɔk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/tʰɔk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/tʰɔk̚³²/ /tʰuʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tʰɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tʰɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/tʰoʔ²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ho⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	托
Reading #	1/1
No.	16916
Phonetic component	乇
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːɡ/
Notes	同拓

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 托

1. to hold in the hand
2. something that supports
3. torr (unit of pressure)

Compounds

• 摩托車／摩托车 (mótuōchē, “motorcycle, motorbike”)
• 摩托自行車／摩托自行车 (mótuō zìxíngchē, “moped”)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 托 – see 託 (“to entrust; to commit to someone's care; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 託).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

托

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たく (taku)
• Kun: たのむ (tanomu)

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Korean

Hanja

托 • (tak) (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune–Reischauer t'ak, Yale thak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 托 (thác, thách, thốc, thước, thướt)

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