tuō
trust, rely on
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰˤak | thak | tuō | entrust |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 67.5957% of movies
426th most common character in movies
799th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A17 |
Shuowen | “託,寄也。从言,乇聲。” |
Sources
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