WordTaiwan frequency #26,870
托爾斯泰
ㄊㄨㄛ ㄦˇ ㄙ ㄊㄞˋ
“Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist; author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection”
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托
ㄊㄨㄛ
To hold up with the palm; to support; to prop up; to entrust or place reliance on; to beg or ask; to decline by feigning illness.
爾
ㄦˇ
A function word; you; thus; so; like that; this; that; a final particle indicating mild exclamation or question.
斯
ㄙ
This; here; thus; such; emphatic particle; phonetic character used in transliterations; archaic pronoun for 'this' or 'here'; archaic adverb for 'all'; archaic conjunction for 'then'.
泰
ㄊㄞˋ
Peaceful; safe; comfortable; smooth; most; grand; great; exalted; abbr. for Thailand or Mt Tai.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 偶爾ㄡˇ ㄦˇoccasionally; now and then; sometimes; from time to time
- 俄羅斯ㄜˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄙRussia; a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
- 泰國ㄊㄞˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊThailand; a country in the center of mainland Southeast Asia.
- 奧斯卡ㄠˋ ㄙ ㄎㄚˇOscar (Academy Award); the annual American film award; (name) Oscar
- 詹姆斯ㄓㄢ ㄇㄨˇ ㄙJames (given name or surname); LeBron James (1984–), American NBA basketball player.
- 國泰ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄊㄞˋCathay Pacific, a major Hong Kong-based airline; by extension, a common shorthand for Cathay Pacific in Chinese.
- 瓦斯ㄨㄚˇ ㄙgas (loanword); flammable gas such as coal gas or natural gas; in military contexts, poison gas.
- 泰山ㄊㄞˋ ㄕㄢMount Tai, a sacred mountain in Shandong, eastern peak of the Five Sacred Mountains; (figurative) father-in-law; Tarzan, fictional jungle hero; Taishan, a district in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- 福爾摩斯ㄈㄨˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄛˊ ㄙSherlock Holmes, the fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle; a brilliant detective known for solving cases through logic and deduction; used figuratively for any highly skilled detective or investigator.
- 荷爾蒙ㄏㄜˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄥˊhormone; a chemical substance produced by endocrine glands in the body; translated from the English word 'hormone'.
- 托育ㄊㄨㄛ ㄩˋchildcare; daycare; the service of entrusting infants or young children to others for care and upbringing.
- 貝斯ㄅㄟˋ ㄙbass (especially the bass guitar); Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt