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)

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

Glyph origin

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

trad.		托
simp. #		托

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuō (tuo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tok³
• Northern Min (KCR): tŏ̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thok / thuh

  (Teochew, Peng'im): toh⁴

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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/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thok / thuh
    • Tâi-lô: thok / thuh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tog, tuq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔk̚³²/, /tʰuʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔk̚⁵/, /tʰuʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔk̚³²/, /tʰuʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔk̚³²/, /tʰuʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔk̚³²/, /tʰuʔ³²/

Note:

• thok - literary;
• thuh - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: toh⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thoh
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʔ²/

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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)

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.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

托

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

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

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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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