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
- 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
- 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
- 卷六十六 列傳第十六: 房玄齡 杜如晦 Volume 66 Biographies 16: Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷二百六十八 列傳第一百五十六 曹文詔 周遇吉 黃得功 Volume 268 Biographies 156: Cao Wenzhao, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
- 卷三十四 列傳第四 羊祜 杜預 Volume 34 Biographies 4: Yang Hu; Du Yu Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 卷三百二十一 列傳第二百〇九 外國二 安南 Volume 321 Biographies 209: Foreign States 2 - Annan History of Ming 明史 — 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 相次束手 (相次束手) 相次束手 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷六十六 列傳第十六: 房玄齡 杜如晦 Volume 66 Biographies 16: Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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