Memory phrase for the character: 托

托

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Meaning

to trust, to entrust, to hold in one's hand

Pronunciation

tuō

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: 乇 (typically: rooted plant, but here: the hand's palm with lines)

Mnemonic
 
If a hand gives something into a hand's palm, it was: entrusted.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
乇 rooted plant




 Vocabulary

委托 wěi tuō  to entrust; to trust; to commission
托洛茨基 Tuō luò cí jī  Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940
衬托 chèn tuō  to set off
摩托罗垃 Mó tuō luó lā  Motorola (company)
摩托罗垃 Mó tuō luó lā  

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