束 (shù)
to bind; bundle; bunch; classifier for flowers
How 束 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 束
- Simplified
- 束 (unchanged)
Common words using 束
- 結束 jiéshù
- termination; to finish; to end
- 束縛 shùfù
- to bind; to restrict; to tie
- 無拘無束 wújūwúshù
- free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered; unbuttoned; without care or worries
- 約束 yuēshù
- to restrict; to limit to; to constrain
- 光束 guāngshù
- light beam
- 受約束 shòuyuēshù
- restricted; constrained
- 拘束 jūshù
- to restrict; to restrain; constrained
- 束之高閣 shùzhīgāogé
- tied up in a bundle on a high shelf; to put sth on the back burner; no longer a high priority
- 束手 shùshǒu
- to have one's hands tied; helpless; unable to do anything about it
- 束手就擒 shùshǒujiùqín
- hands tied and waiting to be captured
- 束手無策 shùshǒuwúcè
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- 束緊 shùjǐn
- gird; tighten
束 in a sentence
他買了一束花送給女朋友。
Tā mǎi le yí shù huā sòng gěi nǚpéngyǒu.
“He bought a bouquet of flowers to give to his girlfriend.”
How common is 束?
束 is the 996th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.1% of all running text.
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