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信托 (xìn tuō) — to entrust; to trust (with property or assets in a financial/legal arrangement)

Definition

信托 (xìntuō) is the legal/financial term 'to entrust assets to a trustee' — more institutional than the everyday 委托 wěituō, which is a casual request to handle a task. The 把-construction is common when naming the property entrusted.

verb
to entrustto trust (with property or assets in a financial/legal arrangement)

Examples

  • 信托。
    Tā bǎ zhè bǐ qián xìn tuō gěi le yín háng.
    He entrusted this sum of money to the bank.
  • 信托。
    Hěn duō rén tōng guò xìn tuō lái guǎn lǐ cái chǎn.
    Many people use trusts to manage their assets.
  • 信托。
    Tā men jué dìng xìn tuō zhuān yè jī gòu chǔ lǐ yí chǎn.
    They decided to entrust a professional institution to handle the inheritance.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

信xìntrust
托tuōentrust

The meanings 信 trust and 托 entrust combine to mean entrusting or trusting.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánwords
Sound part声符shēngfú
人
人rén信xìn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

信 pairs 人 as the sound part with 言 (words) as the meaning part.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
手手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
乇
乇tuō托tuō
Same sound today

托 is built from 手 (hand) and 乇, which gives the sound tuō.

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Appears in
Finance & Banking

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