托 tuō

1. tuō verb to support; to rely on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '托' v 2; Kroll 2015 '托' 1, p. 463; Unihan '托'; XHZD '托' 3, p. 768)
2. tuō verb to hold in one's hand
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '托' v 1; Kroll 2015 '托' 1, p. 463; Unihan '托'; XHZD '托' 1, p. 767)
3. tuō noun to act as a foil; to provide a contrast
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 陪衬 (Guoyu '托' v 4; XHZD '托' 2, p. 767)
4. tuō verb to entrust; to trust
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 讬 (Guoyu '托' v 5; Kroll 2015 '托' 2, p. 463; XHZD '托' 4, p. 768)
5. tuō verb to provide as a pretext; to use an excuse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 推托 (Guoyu '托' v 6; XHZD '托' 6, p. 768)
6. tuō measure word torr
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: An old unit of pressure (Guoyu '托' n 2; XHZD '托' 7, p. 768)
7. tuō verb to lend
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '托' v 3)
8. tuō noun a support
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 花托 'flower base' (Guoyu '托' n 1)
9. tuō proper noun Tuo
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '托' n 3)

Contained in

• 摩托 motor ; motorbike
• 半托 day care
• 托管 trusteeship
• 茶托 a saucer
• 委托(委託) to entrust; to trust; to authorize
• 托特 1. Thoth (ancient Egyptian deity)
• 衬托(襯托) to set off
• 烘云托月(烘雲托月) to shade in the clouds to offset the moon; a foil; a contrasting character to a main hero
• 托拉斯 a trust (commerce)
• 假托(假託) to make something up as an excuse ; to fake; to so something under the guise of something else ; imaginary; simulated ; hypocritical ; to rely on
• 乌托邦(烏托邦) utopia
• 托运行李(托運行李) luggage that has been checked in (on flight)
• 托付 to entrust
• 伪托(偽托) faking a modern object as an ancient one
• 托词(託詞) to make an excuse; pretext; excuse
• 托辞(託辭) to make an excuse
• 医托(醫托) hospital scalper; sb who for a profit entices others to obtain medical care
• 托儿所(托兒所) nursery
• 众鸟欣有托(眾鳥欣有托) all birds delight in the place where they rest
• 托卡塔 toccata
• 吧托 scam girl; woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧
• 菌托 volva (bag containing spores on stem of fungi)
• 踏板摩托车(踏板摩托車) scooter
• 水上摩托 jet ski
• 饭托(飯托) person hired to lure customers to high-priced restaurants
• 托泥 a wooden stand
• 烘托(烘託) to set off using contrast
• 托运(托運) to consign (goods); to check through (baggage)
• 阿托品 atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
• 和盘托出(和盤托出) to put everything out including the tray; to reveal everything; to make a clean breast of it all
• 杯托 a saucer
• 阿里斯托芬 Aristophanes
• 托马斯·阿奎纳(托馬斯·阿奎納) Thomas Aquinas
• 白托 day care for the elderly

Also contained in

托克逊县 、 托木尔 、 喀拉喀托 、 苏哈托 、 马托格罗索 、 安纳托利亚语族 、 科托努 、 托利党 、 托里 、 马尼托巴 、 中国国际信托投资公司 、 萨克拉门托 、 托尔斯泰 、 罗斯托克 、 托斯卡纳大 、 托勒玫 、 奥特朗托

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• 卷四百八十一 列傳第二百四十 世家四 南漢劉氏劉鋹(龔澄樞 李托 薛崇譽 潘崇徹) Volume 481 Biographies 240: Hereditary Houses 4 - Southern Han and Liu clans Liu Chang (Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu, Pan Chongche) History of Song 宋史 — count: 14
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 12
• 外儲說右上第三十四 Chapter 34: A Collection of Sayings V Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 9
• 卷一百七十九 列傳第一百二十九: 蕭遘 孔緯 韋昭度 崔昭緯 張濬 朱樸 鄭綮 劉崇望 徐彥若 陸扆 柳璨 Volume 179 Biographies 129: Xiao Gou, Kong Wei, Wei Zhaodu, Cui Zhaowei, Zhang Jun, Zhu Pu, Zheng Qi, Liu Chongwang, Xu Yanruo, Lu Yu, Liu Can Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 9
• 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 9
• 卷二百四十四 列傳第一百三十二 楊漣 左光斗 魏大中 周朝瑞 袁化中 顧大章 王之寀 Volume 244 Biographies 132: Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Yuan Huazhong, Gu Dazhang, Wang Zhicai History of Ming 明史 — count: 8
• 卷六十三 李杜列傳 Volume 63: Biographies of Li, Du Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 8
• 卷一百八十七上 列傳第一百三十七上: 忠義上 Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 7
• 卷五十四　列傳第四十二:　孫騰 高隆之 司馬子如 竇泰 尉景 婁昭 厙狄干 韓軌 段榮 斛律金 Volume 54 Biographies 42: Sun Teng, Gao Longzhi, Sima Ziru, Doutai, Wei Jing, Lou Zhao, She Digan, Han Gui, Duan Rong, Hu Lujin History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 7
• 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 7

Collocations

• 可以托 (可以托) 則民可以托 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《坊記》 Record of the Dykes — count: 6
• 请托 (請托) 請托不行郡國 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十四 翟方進傳 Volume 84: Zhai Fangjin — count: 6
• 托病 (托病) 托病不朝 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 5
• 托身 (托身) 然民有掘穴狹廬所以托身者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九　主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 4
• 托始 (托始) 托始焉爾 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
• 托天下 (托天下) 焉可以托天下 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二　道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 3
• 托不行 (托不行) 請托不行郡國 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十四 翟方進傳 Volume 84: Zhai Fangjin — count: 2
• 托言 (托言) 托言勞來貧人 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十五 卓魯魏劉列傳 Volume 25: Biography of Zhuo, Lu, Wei, Liu — count: 2
• 仕托 (仕托) 晉國之辭仕托者國之錘 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 2
• 托疾 (托疾) 托疾不仕 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十五 卓魯魏劉列傳 Volume 25: Biography of Zhuo, Lu, Wei, Liu — count: 2