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

• 全托(全託) full-time care (of children in a boarding nursery)
• 莫吉托 Mojito
• 委托书(委託書) commission; proxy; power of attorney; authorization; warrant
• 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
• 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
• 托老所 senior center
• 吧托 scam girl; woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧
• 信托(信託) to entrust; trust bond
• 受托者(受託者) trustee
• 托儿(托兒) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers
• 托塔天王 the pagoda bearing god
• 托管 trusteeship
• 捧托 to hold up with both hands
• 摩托车的士(摩托車的士) motorcycle taxi
• 央托(央託) to request assistance; to ask somebody to do sth
• 支托 to make excuses
• 踏板摩托车(踏板摩托車) scooter
• 托钵修会(托缽修會) mendicant religious order in Catholicism / Franciscan order
• 众鸟欣有托(眾鳥欣有托) all birds delight in the place where they rest
• 托特 1. Thoth (ancient Egyptian deity)
• 乌托邦(烏托邦) utopia
• 寄托(寄託) to entrust the care of somebody ; to deposit ; to rely on
• 布托 Bhutto
• 饭托(飯托) person hired to lure customers to high-priced restaurants
• 偏三轮摩托车(偏三輪摩托車) motorbike with sidecar
• 托辞(託辭) to make an excuse
• 烘托(烘託) to set off using contrast
• 鄂托克 Otog banner; Otgiin khoshuu
• 酒托 person hired to lure customers to high-priced bars
• 托拉斯 a trust (commerce)
• 阿托品 atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
• 反托拉斯 antitrust

Also contained in

卡托研究所 、 托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特 、 埃克托·柏辽兹 、 鄂托克前旗 、 威奇托 、 马托格罗索 、 托勒密王 、 布里斯托尔海峡 、 埃拉托塞尼斯 、 萨克拉门托 、 托克托 、 托跋 、 托洛茨基 、 托木尔峰 、 托皮卡 、 托木尔 、 贝·布托 、 乌兰巴托 、 布里斯托尔

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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
• 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
• 外儲說右上第三十四 Chapter 34: A Collection of Sayings V Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 9
• 卷六十三 李杜列傳 Volume 63: Biographies of Li, Du Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 8
• 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
• 卷九十二 列傳第四十二: 魏元忠 韋安石 蕭至忠 宗楚客 紀處訥 Volume 92 Biographies 42: Wei Yuanzhong, Wei Anshi, Ziao Zhizhong, Zong Chuke, Ji Chune Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 7
• 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 卷一百 列傳第五十: 尹思貞 李傑 解琬 畢構 蘇珦 鄭惟忠 王志愔 盧從願 李朝隱 裴漼 王丘 Volume 100 Biographies 50: Yin Sizhen, Li Jie, Jie Wan, Bi Gou, Su Xiang, Zheng Weizhong, Wang Zhiyin, Lu Congyuan, Li Chaoyin, Pei Cui, Wang Qiu Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — 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
• 属托 (屬托) 以長屬托太后及帝 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十三 佞幸傳 Volume 93: Flatterers — count: 2
• 托财 (托財) 所托財器職業者率於羣下也 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 2 — 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
• 托足 (托足) 雖臧獲不托足於其軫也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說右上第三十四 Chapter 34: A Collection of Sayings V — count: 2