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托

See also: 託, and 乇
托 U+6258, 托
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6258
← 扗
[U+6257] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 扙 →
[U+6259]

Translingual

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Han character

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

References

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  • 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

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (乇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咤 *ʔr'aː, *ʔr'aːɡs
吒 *ʔr'aːɡs
灹 *ʔr'aːɡs
矺 *ʔr'aːɡs, *ʔl'aːb, *ʔl'aːɡ, *l̥ʰaːɡ, *ʔr'eːɡ
奼 *ʔr'aːɡs, *hr'aːʔ, *ʔl'aːɡs
侘 *hr'aː, *hr'aːɡs
詫 *hr'aːɡs
秅 *r'aː, *ʔl'aːɡs
秺 *ʔl'aːɡs
亳 *blaːɡ
托 *l̥ʰaːɡ
託 *l̥ʰaːɡ
魠 *l̥ʰaːɡ
馲 *l̥ʰaːɡ, *raːɡ, *ʔr'aːɡ
侂 *l̥ʰaːɡ
飥 *l̥ʰaːɡ
仛 *l'aːɡ
虴 *pr'aːɡ
杔 *ʔr'aːɡ
乇 *ʔr'aːɡ
宅 *r'aːɡ
厇 *ʔr'eːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːɡ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 乇 (OC *ʔr'aːɡ)

Etymology 1

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trad. 托
simp. # 托

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • thok - literary;
  • thuh - vernacular (“to support with one's palm; to prop on”).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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/
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

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托

  1. to hold in the hand; to support with one's palm
  2. to serve as foil; to set off; to contrast
  3. support; base; saucer
  4. torr (unit of pressure)
  5. (Cantonese, euphemistic) Short for 托柒.
  6. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to prop on; to lean on (a pole, stick, or anything elongated as a fulcrum)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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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).
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Etymology 3

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For pronunciation and definitions of 托 – see 拓 (“(Hokkien) to uncover someone's secret or private matter”).
(This character is the simplified form of 拓).
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Japanese

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Kanji

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托

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. to entrust with; to request

Readings

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  • Go-on: たく (taku)
  • Kan-on: たく (taku)
  • Kun: たのむ (tanomu, 托む)

Korean

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Hanja

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托 (eum 탁 (tak))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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托: Hán Nôm readings: thác, thách, thốc, thước, thướt

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