投 tóu
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tóu
verb
to throw; to cast; to fling; to pitch
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 扔; for example, 投石子 'throw a rock' (Guoyu '投' v 1; Kroll 2015 '投' 1; Unihan '投') -
tóu
verb
to jump into; to fall forward
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 跳进去; for example, 自投罗网 'to walk into a trap' (Guoyu '投' v 3; Kroll 2015 '投' 4; Unihan '投') -
tóu
verb
to emit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: To emit light; in the sense of 映照 (Guoyu '投' v 4) -
tóu
verb
to fire
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: To fire a projectle (Kroll 2015 '投' 1c) -
tóu
verb
to stand up; to participate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '投' 2) -
tóu
verb
to give
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 赠送 (Guoyu '投' v 13; Kroll 2015 '投' 3) -
tóu
verb
to tread; to walk; to move forward
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 前往 or 走向 (Guoyu '投' 6; Kroll 2015 '投' 5) -
tóu
verb
to be near to; to be close to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 接近 or 靠近 (Guoyu '投' v 9; Kroll 2015 '投' 6) -
tóu
noun
dice
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a variant of 骰 (Kroll 2015 '投' 7) -
tóu
verb
to load; to pack
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 放进 (Guoyu '投' v 2) -
tóu
verb
to send
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A letter, message, etc; in the sense of 寄发 (Guoyu '投' v 5) -
tóu
verb
to join
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '投' v 7) -
tóu
verb
to depend on
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 奔靠; for example, 投奔 'to seek shelter' (Guoyu '投' v 8) -
tóu
verb
to scatter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 甩 or 挥 (Guoyu '投' v 10) -
tóu
verb
to abandon
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 抛弃 (Guoyu '投' v 11) -
tóu
verb
to use
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 用 (Guoyu '投' v 12) -
tóu
verb
to cater to; to pander to; to be congenial
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 迎合 (Guoyu '投' v 14; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1259)
Contained in
- 投石问路(投石問路) to toss a stone to find out what's ahead; to test the waters
- 投影机(投影機) projector
- 投缳自缢(投繯自縊) to hang oneself
- 投机买卖(投機買賣) buying and selling on speculation
- 投递员(投遞員) courier; mailman
- 投资家(投資家) investor
- 投票地点(投票地點) voting place
- 投光灯(投光燈) floodlight
- 投机者(投機者) speculator
- 投票权(投票權) suffrage; right to vote
- 以石投卵 a rock against an egg
- 投效 to throw oneself into a task
- 投产(投產) to go into operation
- 投靠 to rely on help from ; to seek help [from somebody with power]
- 胶漆相投(膠漆相投) to stick together like glue and lacquer
- 投开票所(投開票所) polling station
- 投生 to be reborn
- 投邮(投郵) to deliver
- 投诚(投誠) to defect; to surrender; to capitulate
- 投票站 polling station (for a vote)
- 话不投机半句多(話不投機半句多) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
- 投篮(投籃) to shoot for the basket (basketball)
- 投硬币(投硬幣) to insert a coin
- 以碫投卵 to use a grindstone against an egg
- 病急乱投医(病急亂投醫) to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill; to try anyone or anything in a crisis
- 正式投票 formal vote
- 投放市场(投放市場) to put something on the market
- 救火投薪 to put out a fire by throwing on logs; to do something that makes a bad situation worse
- 针锋相投(針鋒相投) points of a needle attract each other
- 投考 to sign up for an examination; to apply for admission (to a university etc); to apply (for a position)
- 投影几何学(投影幾何學) projective geometry
- 人来投主,鸟来投林(人來投主,鳥來投林) people come to help the host, birds come and settle in the forest
- 如胶投漆(如膠投漆) like glue sticking to lacquer; joined at the hip
- 公投 referendum
- 投閒置散 to discard; to not give importance to
- 投江 to jump into the river
- 意气相投(意氣相投) to have the same feelings as
- 投票 to vote
- 投影仪(投影儀) a projector
- 投书(投書) to deliver; to send a letter; a letter (of complaint, opinion etc)
- 斜投影 oblique projection
- 投票者 voter
- 投敌(投敵) to go over to the enemy; to defect
- 投诉(投訴) complaint; to complain; to register a complaint (especially as a customer)
- 投井下石 to throw stones at somebody who fell down a well; to hit a person who is down
- 投递(投遞) to deliver
- 投放 to put in; to throw in
- 投注 to throw one's energies (into an activity); to invest one's emotions; to bet; betting
Also contained in
风险投资 、 中国国际信托投资公司 、 投拍
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三百〇三 列傳第一百九十一 列女三 Volume 303 Biographies 191: Exemplary Women 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 23
- 第十一回 Chapter 11 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 19
- 卷八十二 志第三十二: 選舉二 Volume 82 Treatises 35: Selection of Officials 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 18
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17
- 第三十二回 Chapter 32 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 16
- 卷十 Scroll 10 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 15
- 卷二百〇一 列傳第八十八: 列女二 Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 15
- 卷三百〇二 列傳第一百九十 列女二 Volume 302 Biographies 190: Exemplary Women 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 15
- 第三十三回 Chapter 33 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 13
- 卷八十四 列傳第四十四 鄧琬 袁顗 孔覬 Volume 84 Biographies 44: Deng Wan, Yuan Yi, Kong Ji Book of Song 宋書 — count: 11
Collocations
- 投石 (投石) 是猶以卵投石也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 7
- 投畀 (投畀) 投畀豺虎 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧巷伯 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Xiang Bo — count: 7
- 投水 (投水) 以火投水 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 5
- 投鼠 (投鼠) 欲投鼠而忌其器 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 2 — count: 4
- 卵投 (卵投) 是猶以卵投石也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 4
- 投杼 (投杼) 曾子母投杼踰垣而去 — New Discussions 新語, 卷上 道基第一 術事第二 輔政第三 無為第四 辨惑第五 慎微第六 Scroll 1 — count: 3
- 石投 (石投) 以焚石投之 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 秋官司寇 第五 5. Office of Autumn and Minister of Justice — count: 3
- 投人 (投人) 桀石以投人 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
- 投钩 (投鉤) 投鉤者 — Xunzi 荀子, 君道篇第十二 Chapter 12: The Way of the Sovereign — count: 2
- 投河 (投河) 故懷負石而投河 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 2