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托管 (tuō guǎn) — (n.) trusteeship; trust (legal/financial); (n.) hosting (of websites, servers, services); (n.) supervised care (for children, elderly)

Definition

托管 means entrusting something (or someone) to another party for management or care. In finance it means trusteeship over assets; in tech it means hosting servers or services; with people it covers supervised care such as after-school 托管班.

noun
(n.) trusteeshiptrust (legal/financial)(n.) hosting (of websites, servers, services)(n.) supervised care (for children, elderly)

Examples

  • 托管。
    Zhè fèn cái chǎn jiāo gěi yín háng tuō guǎn guǎn lǐ.
    This property is placed under bank trusteeship for management.
  • 托管。
    Wǒ men de wǎng zhàn cǎi yòng le yún tuō guǎn jì shù.
    Our website uses cloud hosting technology.
  • 托管。
    Hái zi fàng xué hòu qù tuō guǎn bān zuò zuò yè.
    After school, the child goes to an aftercare program to do homework.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

托tuōentrust
管guǎnmanagement

托 means entrust and 管 means management, giving the idea of entrusted management or trusteeship.

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
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.

Open 托 →

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
竹竹zhúbamboo
Sound part声符shēngfú
官
官guān管guǎn
Same sound today

管 has 竹 (bamboo) on top to show it relates to bamboo, and 官 gives its sound.

Open 管 →
Appears in
Abstract ConceptsBusiness & Commerce

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