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
- 束手待毙(束手待斃) to wait helplessly for death; to resign oneself to extinction
- 束手就毙(束手就斃) hands tied and expecting the worst
- 束手就擒 hands tied and waiting to be captured
- 束手无策(束手無策) hands bound and unable to help
- 束手待死 hands tied and expecting the worst
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- 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
- 第八十五回 Chapter 85 Water Margin 水滸傳 — 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
- 卷一百七十九 列傳第一百二十九: 蕭遘 孔緯 韋昭度 崔昭緯 張濬 朱樸 鄭綮 劉崇望 徐彥若 陸扆 柳璨 Volume 179 Biographies 129: Xiao Gou, Kong Wei, Wei Zhaodu, Cui Zhaowei, Zhang Jun, Zhu Pu, Zheng Qi, Liu Chongwang, Xu Yanruo, Lu Yu, Liu Can Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷九十 列傳第六十 良吏 Volume 90 Biographies 60: Good Officials Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 卷三百九十四 列傳第一百五十三 胡紘 何澹 林栗 高文虎 陳自強 鄭丙 京鏜 謝深甫 許及之 梁汝嘉 Volume 394 Biographies 153: Hu Hong, He Dan, Lin Li, Gao Wenhu, Chen Ziqiang, Zheng Bing, Jing Tang, Xie Shenfu, Xu Jizhi, Liang Rujia History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷一 本紀第一: 太祖 Volume 1 Annals 1: Taizu History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 卷三百十二 列傳第七十一 韓琦子:忠彥 曾公亮子:孝寬 孝廣 孝蘊 陳升之 吳充 王珪從父:罕 從兄:琪 Volume 312 Biographies 71: Han Qi and son: Zhongyan, Ceng Gongliang and son: Xiaokuan, Xiao Guang, Xiao Yun, Chen Shengzhi, Wu Chong, Wang Gui and uncle: Han, nephew: Qi History of Song 宋史 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 人束手 (人束手) 荊人束手聽命 — History of Song 宋史, 卷二百五十七 列傳第十六 吳廷祚 李崇矩 王仁贍 楚昭輔 李處耘 Volume 257 Biographies 16: Wu Tingzuo, Li Chongju, Wang Renshan, Chu Zhaofu, Li Chuyun — count: 2
- 琮束手 (琮束手) 刘琮束手 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十七 吳書二 吳主傳 Volume 47: Book of Wu 2 - Biography of the Lord of Wu — count: 2
- 束手不敢 (束手不敢) 皆束手不敢驁 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百十二 列傳第七十一 韓琦子:忠彥 曾公亮子:孝寬 孝廣 孝蘊 陳升之 吳充 王珪從父:罕 從兄:琪 Volume 312 Biographies 71: Han Qi and son: Zhongyan, Ceng Gongliang and son: Xiaokuan, Xiao Guang, Xiao Yun, Chen Shengzhi, Wu Chong, Wang Gui and uncle: Han, nephew: Qi — 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
- 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
- 束手听命 (束手聽命) 荊人束手聽命 — History of Song 宋史, 卷二百五十七 列傳第十六 吳廷祚 李崇矩 王仁贍 楚昭輔 李處耘 Volume 257 Biographies 16: Wu Tingzuo, Li Chongju, Wang Renshan, Chu Zhaofu, Li Chuyun — count: 2
- 佐束手 (佐束手) 參佐束手 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 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 — count: 2