束手 shùshǒu
shùshǒu
verb
to have one's hands tied; helpless; unable to do anything about it
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '束手')
Contained in
- 束手就擒 hands tied and waiting to be captured
- 束手待死 hands tied and expecting the worst
- 束手就毙(束手就斃) hands tied and expecting the worst
- 束手无策(束手無策) hands bound and unable to help
- 束手待毙(束手待斃) to wait helplessly for death; to resign oneself to extinction
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第八十五回 Chapter 85 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷十九上 本紀第十九上: 懿宗 Volume 19 Annals 19: Yizong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷二十八 魏書二十八 王毌丘諸葛鄧鍾傳 Volume 28: Book of Wei 28 - Biographies of Wang, Guanqiu, Zhuge, Deng and Zhong Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
- 卷43 嚴棱 毛修之 唐和 劉休賓 房法夀 Volume 43: Yan Leng, Mao Xiuzhi, Tang He, Liu Xiubin, Fang Fashou Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 2
- 卷十三 隗囂公孫述列傳 Volume 13: Biographies of Wei Xiao; Gongsun Shu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷三百二十一 列傳第八十 鄭獬 陳襄 錢公輔 孫洙 豐稷 呂誨 劉述 劉琦 錢顗 鄭俠 Volume 321 Biographies 80: Zheng Xie, Chen Xiang, Qian Gongfu, Sun Zhu, Feng Ji, Lu Hui, Liu Shu, Liu Qi, Qian Yi, Zheng Xia History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷一百五十七 列傳第一百〇七: 王翃 郗士美 李鄘 辛秘 馬摠 韋弘景 王彥威 Volume 157 Biographies 107: Wang Hong, Chi Shimei, Li Yong, Xinmi, Ma Hui, Wei Hongjing, Wang Yanwei Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷八 列傳第二: 杜僧明 周文育 侯安都 Volume 8: Du Sengming; Zhou Wenyu; Hou Andu Book of Chen 陳書 — count: 1
- 卷七 魏書七 呂布臧洪傳 Volume 7: Book of Wei 7 - Biographies of Lü Bu and Zang Hong Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 卷三百〇五 列傳第一百九十三 宦官二 李芳 馮保 張鯨 陳增 梁永 陳矩 王安 魏忠賢 王體乾 崔文昇 張彝憲 高起潛 王承恩 方正化 Volume 305 Biographies 193: Officials 2 - Li Fang, Feng Bao, Zhang Jing, Chen Zeng, Liang Yong, Chen Ju, Wang An, Wei Zhongxian, Wang Tigan, Cui Wensheng, Zhang Yixian, Gao Qiqian, Wang Chengen, Fang Zhenghua History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 束手受 (束手受) 寧肯束手受縶 — History of the Southern Dynasties 南史, 卷八十 列傳第七十 賊臣 Volume 80 Biographies 70: Treacherous Officials — count: 6
- 肯束手 (肯束手) 未肯束手 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一 帝紀第一 高祖宣帝 Volume 1 Annals 1: Emperor Xuan — count: 3
- 束手归 (束手歸) 束手歸命 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷七 魏書七 呂布臧洪傳 Volume 7: Book of Wei 7 - Biographies of Lü Bu and Zang Hong — count: 3
- 束手待 (束手待) 束手待朝廷除人 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十九上 本紀第十九上: 懿宗 Volume 19 Annals 19: Yizong — count: 2
- 束手受罪 (束手受罪) 束手受罪 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十八 魏書二十八 王毌丘諸葛鄧鍾傳 Volume 28: Book of Wei 28 - Biographies of Wang, Guanqiu, Zhuge, Deng and Zhong — count: 2
- 束手来 (束手來) 用好言招撫此人束手來降 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十七回 Chapter 67 — count: 2
- 束手诣 (束手詣) 皆束手詣伋降 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十一 郭杜孔張廉王蘇羊賈陸列傳 Volume 31: Biographies of Guo, Du, Kong, Zhang, Lian, Wang, Su, Yang, Jia, Lu — count: 2
- 吏束手 (吏束手) 本司郎吏束手閒居 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十八上 本紀第十八上: 武宗 Volume 18 Annals 18: Wuzong — count: 2
- 宜束手 (宜束手) 為宜束手就命 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十三 載記第十三 苻堅上 Volume 113 Records 13: Fu Jian Part One — count: 2
- 君臣束手 (君臣束手) 便可君臣束手 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百一十四 載記第十四 苻堅下 Volume 114 Records 14: Fu Jian Part Two — count: 2