| 脱 | tuō | to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from |
| 脱离 | tuō lí | to separate oneself from; to break away from; diastasis (medicine); abscission; abjunction (botany) |
| 脱水 | tuō shuǐ | to dry out; to extract water; dehydration; dehydrated; desiccation |
| 脱氧 | tuō yǎng | deoxidation |
| 脱粒 | tuō lì | to thresh |
| 脱出 | tuō chū | to break away; to extricate; to escape; to leave the confines of |
| 脱节 | tuō jié | to come apart |
| 脱脂 | tuō zhī | to remove fat; to skim (milk) |
| 脱色 | tuō sè | to lose color; to turn pale; to bleach; to fade |
| 脱氧核糖 | tuō yǎng hé táng | deoxyribose |
| 脱氢 | tuō qīng | dehydrogenation |
| 脱产 | tuō chǎn | to transfer (from production to other duties); to take leave (for study or other job); to dispose of property; to transfer assets (to avoid liability) |
| 脱身 | tuō shēn | to get away; to escape (from obligations); to free oneself; to disengage |
| 脱手 | tuō shǒu | (not of regular commerce) to sell or dispose of (goods etc); to get rid of; to unload |
| 脱空 | tuō kōng | to fail; to come to nothing; to fall through (of plans, hopes); to lie |
| 脱胎 | tuō tāi | born; to emerge from the womb; fig. to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); fig. to shed one's body (to be reborn); bodiless (e.g. lacquerware) |
| 脱粒机 | tuō lì jī | threshing machine |
| 脱险 | tuō xiǎn | to escape (danger); to rescue; to come out alive |
| 脱毛 | tuō máo | to lose hair or feathers; to molt; depilation; to shave |
| 脱逃 | tuō táo | to run away; to escape |
| 脱销 | tuō xiāo | to sell out; to run out (of supplies); deficient; lack of supplies |
| 脱落 | tuō luò | to drop off; to come off; to lose (hair etc); to omit (a character when writing) |
| 脱下 | tuō xià | to take off (clothing) |
| 脱不了身 | tuō bù liǎo shēn | busy and unable to get away |
| 脱俗 | tuō sú | free from vulgarity; refined; outstanding |
| 脱光 | tuō guāng | to strip naked; to strip nude |
| 脱北者 | tuō běi zhě | North Korean refugee |
| 脱卸 | tuō xiè | to evade responsibility; to shirk |
| 脱去 | tuō qù | throw off |
| 脱口 | tuō kǒu | to blurt out |
| 脱口秀 | tuō kǒu xiù | talk show (loanword) |
| 脱口而出 | tuō kǒu ér chū | to blurt out; to let slip (an indiscreet remark) |
| 脱咖啡因 | tuō kā fēi yīn | decaffeinated; decaf; see also 无咖啡因 |
| 脱垂 | tuō chuí | prolapse |
| 脱孝 | tuō xiào | to get through the mourning period |
| 脱岗 | tuō gǎng | to take time off; to take leave (e.g. for study); to skive off work |
| 脱序 | tuō xù | disorder |
| 脱掉 | tuō diào | to remove; to take off; to strip off; to discard; to shed; to come off; to fall off |
| 脱换 | tuō huàn | to molt |
| 脱敏 | tuō mǐn | to desensitize; to remove an allergic susceptibility |
| 脱期 | tuō qī | to fail to come out on time; to miss a deadline |
| 脱机 | tuō jī | offline |
| 脱档 | tuō dàng | sold out; out of stock |
| 脱壳 | tuō ké | to shed egg-shell (of newly hatched chick) |
| 脱壳 | tuō qiào | to molt; to exuviate; fig. to fly off like an exuviate cicada |
| 脱毛剂 | tuō máo jì | depilatory medicine |
| 脱氧核糖核酸 | tuō yǎng hé táng hé suān | DNA |
| 脱氧核苷酸 | tuō yǎng hé gān suān | deoxyribonucleoside monophosphate; dNMP |
| 脱氧脱糖核酸 | tuō yǎng tuō táng hé suān | deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) |
| 脱氧麻黄碱 | tuō yǎng má huáng jiǎn | methamphetamine |