乇 pictures a leaf sprouting on a stem and is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in 托 (to hold up / entrust), 宅 (residence), and 咤 (to shout).
Components
pictograph
乇tuō
sprouting leaf on a stem
A small drawing of a single leaf budding from an upright stem. Treated as one pictograph since stem and leaf are written as one continuous figure in 乇.
Filed under radical 丿 (piě, #4) by convention. 丿 is not a separate component in 乇, so no strokes are highlighted.
