拜托(bài tuō) - please (as a favour), I beg you in Mandarin

A two-character word: 拜 'to pay respects, to bow' (a depiction of joined hands in salute) plus 托 'to entrust' (hand radical 扌 + 乇 as phonetic). Together 拜托 means to entrust someone with a favour, hence a polite 'please'.

Origin

compound

Root

拜 (pay respects) + 托 (扌 hand + 乇 phonetic)