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委托

wěi tuō

HSK 5 2-character word Traditional 委託

What 委托 means

1. to entrust
2. to trust
3. to commission

The characters in 委托

• 委wěito entrust; to cast aside; to shift (blame etc)
• 托tuōto hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm…

Example sentences

• 我是个委托人。
  I'm a client.
• 我的一个朋友委托一位知名画家给他的妻子画肖像。
  Wǒ de yī gè péngyou wěituō yī wèi zhīmíng huàjiā gěi tā de qīzi huà xiàoxiàng.
  A friend of mine commissioned a well-known artist to paint a portrait of his wife.

Words starting with 委托

• 委托人wěi tuō rén(law) client; trustor
• 委托书wěi tuō shūcommission; proxy; power of attorney

Sounds the same

Read wěi tuō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 伪托faking a modern object as an ancient one