Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) 托 Kangxi stroke count: 7 Page 417, Entry 18 According to the Sound of Rhymes (Jiyun) and the Rhyme Gathering (Yunhui), pronounced ta. This is a variant form of the character to (to push/support). Please see the notes for the character to. It is also used in the term bu-tuo, which is interchangeable with bo-tuo. In the History of the Five Dynasties (Wudaishi), Biography of Li Maozhen, it is written: One day eat porridge, one day eat bu-tuo. Ouyang Xiu writes in the Record of Returning to the Fields (Guitianlu) that the people of the Tang dynasty referred to noodle soup as bu-tuo. It is also the name of a type of plate. During the Song dynasty, it was called a tuo-zi, and it is now called a tuo-pan (tray).