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
- 束手待毙(束手待斃) to wait helplessly for death; to resign oneself to extinction
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 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
- 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
- 卷三 帝紀第三 世祖武帝 Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wu Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 卷一百十五 列傳第五十三: 完顏奴申 崔立 李琦 聶天驥 赤盞尉忻 Volume 115 Biographies 53: Wanyan Nushen, Cui Li, Li Qi, Nie Tianji, Chizhan Weixin History of Jin 金史 — count: 1
- 第五十四回 Chapter 54 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 卷一百十七 列傳第六十七: 嚴武 郭英乂 崔寧 嚴震 嚴礪 Volume 117 Biographies 67: Yan Wu, Guo Yingyi, Cui Ning, Yan Zhen, Yan Li Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷一百四十六 列傳第七十一 二李 Volume 146 Biographies 71: Two Li's New Book of Tang 新唐書 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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