托
tuō HSK5

to hold up, support

托 託 tuō frequency
to entrust verbadverb
to entrust someone with a task or responsibility; to ask for a favor or help; to act as a trustee
to give expression to verb
to find a place for one's feelings or one's person; to commit to or give expression to
to rely on
to rely on or depend on; to owe to someone's good fortune
to make an excuse
to make a pretext; to use something as an excuse to avoid or decline
托 tuō
support noun
something that serves as a base or rest; a prop, such as a gunstock or a saucer
to support in the palm verb
to hold up or support something from underneath with the palm of the hand or with a tray

我必须托住他的头。

wǒ bì​xū tuō zhù tā de tóu.

I have to support his head.

to set off
(bound form) to serve as a foil or to set off by contrast, as in 衬托 chèn​tuō
shill
(colloquial) a shill or plant who helps a swindler lure victims into a scam; often used as 托儿 tuō​r
torr
a unit of pressure equal to one millimeter of mercury (mmHg)
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
799th most common 227.7 per million
Movie subtitles
426th most common 347.5 per million appears in 68% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
30.5 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
46.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+6258

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)