烘托 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. hōngtuō ㄏㄨㄥ ㄊㄨㄛ background (of a painting) backdrop a foil (to set off something to advantage) to offset (something to advantage) Character by character 烘(hōng)bake 托(tuō)hold up in one's hand A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT