ENTRUST  委託

GIVE something to someone TRUSTING that s/he FUTURE:will KEEP it DILIGENTLY.
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Hypernym
  • GIVECAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT.
    • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
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 ／

Words

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)
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
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
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
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
囑  zhǔ OC: tjoɡ MC: tɕi̯ok 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNpassivebe entrusted to; belong to
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)

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: