托柒

Chinese

		to hold in one's hand; to entrust; to support in one's palm	seven (fraud-proof); (Cantonese) penis
trad. (托柒)		托	柒
simp. #(托柒)		托	柒
alternative forms		托𨳍
Literally: “to hold a flaccid penis with one's hand”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tok³ cat⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tok³ cat⁶
    • Yale: tok chaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tok⁸ tsat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tog³ ced⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːk̚³ t͡sʰɐt̚²/

Verb

托⫽柒 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese, vulgar, sarcastic, figuratively) to do something that is useless and meaningless

   我都唔知留低喺度有乜好做，唔通托柒咩？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   ngo⁵ dou¹ m⁴ zi¹ lau⁴ dai¹ hai² dou⁶ jau⁵ mat¹ hou² zou⁶, m⁴ tung¹ tok³ cat⁶ me¹? [Jyutping]

   I don't know what I could do if I stayed here; don't tell me that I could stay here and do something meaningless? (literally … don't tell me that I could stay here and hold a flaccid penis with my hand?)

Synonyms

• 托 (tok3) (minced oath)
• 把撚 (baa2 lan2)

Derived terms

• 托柒都唔識轉膊／托柒都唔识转膊