ENTRUST    委託

GIVE something to someone TRUSTING that s/he FUTURE:will KEEP it DILIGENTLY.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The currrent standard word for entrusting something to someone else's care is tuō 託 any limited or unlimited period of time. 2. Jì 寄 focusses on the transferring of responsibility for something to someone else, typically for a limited period of time. 3. Zhǔ 屬 is cause something to belong under someone else, often with no time limit.
Modern Chinese Criteria
委託 付托 囑託 信託 寄托 懇托 托付 託付 托 寄 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • GIVE　CAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT. (anc: 12/0, child: 13)
  • CAUSE TO　MOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES. (anc: 11/0, child: 18)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 774

    • Words (11 items)

    託  tuō OC: ph-laaɡ MC: thɑk 16 Attributions

    The currrent standard word for entrusting something to someone else's care is tuō 託 any limited or unlimited period of time.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 寄/ENTRUST Jì 寄 focusses on the transferring of responsibility for something to someone else, typically for a limited period of time.

      Syntactic words
    • vt+prep+Nentrust oneself to
    • vtoNdevote (all one's efforts to something)CH
    • vttoN1(.+prep+N2)omentrust (somebody N1) to a contextually defined object N2
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2causativeentrust (something or somebody N1) to (somebody N2) 託天下於堯之法
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2psychconsign or entrust (oneself) to N
    屬  zhǔ OC: tjoɡ MC: tɕi̯ok 16 Attributions

    Zhǔ 屬 is cause something to belong under someone else, often with no time limit.

      Syntactic words
    • vttoN1(.+N2)consign/entrust N1 to the contextually determinate N2CH
    • vttoN1.+N2entrust (something N1) to (someone N2)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2consign (N1) to (N2), leave to, entrust to屬輕重於權衡
    • vttoN1.postN2preposed objectentrust (something) to (someone) (with preposed indirect object)
    歸依  guī yī OC: klul qɯl MC: kɨi ʔɨi 12 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabpsychtaking refuge; finding security
    • VPtoNbuddhistBUDDH: take refuge in (buddha, dharma, sangha, etc.); entrust onself to [corr. CH]
    • VPtoNreflexive.自take refuge in oneself
    寄  jì OC: krals MC: kiɛ 11 Attributions

    Jì 寄 focusses on the transferring of responsibility for something to someone else, typically for a limited period of time.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 託/ENTRUST The currrent standard word for entrusting something to someone else's care is tuō 託 any limited or unlimited period of time.

      Syntactic words
    • +vttoN1.+prep+N2figurativechoose the literary effect N2 for N1CH
    • vtt(oN1.)+N2entrust (someone) to someone unspecified
    • vttoN1(.+prep+N2)entrust something to a contextually determinate place or person
    • vttoN1.+N2entrust (something N2) to (someone/something N1)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2entrust (something considered valuable N1) to (someone or something N2) 　寄x於y
    投  tóu OC: doo MC: du 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt[oN]throw oneself towards > to entrust oneself to; devote oneself to (in Buddhist texts concretely referring to joining the assembly of a master)
    任  rèn OC: njɯms MC: ȵim 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vttoN1(.+N2)entrust N1 to contextually determinate N2TW
    • vttoN1.+N2entrust N1 to N2
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2give (somebody N1) the responsibility for (something N2)任天下於益
    寄託  jì tuō OC: krals ph-laaɡ MC: kiɛ thɑk 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNpassiveto whom something is entrusted, to whom one has entrusted
    • VPtoNfind refuge in
    委  wěi OC: qrolʔ MC: ʔiɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vttoN1.+N2entrust N1 to N2
    寓  yù OC: ŋos MC: ŋi̯o 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vttoN1.+N2N2=placeentrust N1 to the place N2DS
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2entrust (something N1) to (somebody N2)大夫寓祭器於大夫
    託陰  tuō yīn OC: ph-laaɡ qrɯm MC: thɑk ʔim
    託  tuō OC: ph-laaɡ MC: thɑk 1 Attribution
    • () p. 6524c, 6525a

      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNentrust oneself for protection to, rely on for protection (more common is 託蔭) (BIANWEN)
    囑  zhǔ OC: tjoɡ MC: tɕi̯ok 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassivebe entrusted to; belong to