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束

shù

HSK 6 Character

What 束 means

1. to bind
2. bunch
3. bundle
4. classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc
5. to control

Other readings

束 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Shùsurname Shu

Example sentences

• 这是结束。
  This is the end.
• 游戏结束。
  Game over.
• 休息结束了！
  Rest time's over!
• 斗争结束了。
  The fight is over.
• 冬天结束了。
  Winter is gone.
• 你结束了吗？
  Are you finished?

Words starting with 束

• 束缚shù fùto bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
• 束手无策shù shǒu wú cèlit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom)…
• 束手shù shǒuto have one's hands tied; helpless; unable to do anything about it
• 束装shù zhuāngto bundle up (one's possessions for a journey)
• 束身shù shēnto bind oneself; submission
• 束发shù fàto tie up one's hair; (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence…
• 束线带shù xiàn dàicable tie
• 束紧shù jǐngird; tighten
• 束手待死shù shǒu dài sǐhands tied and expecting the worst
• 束衣shù yīcorset (clothing)
• 束身内衣shù shēn nèi yīcorset
• 束手束脚shù shǒu shù jiǎo(idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
• 束之高阁shù zhī gāo gétied up in a bundle on a high shelf; to put sth on the back burner…
• 束胸shù xiōngto bind one's breasts; breast binder
• 束腰shù yāogirdle
• 束腹shù fùcorset; girdle
• 束狭shù xiánarrow (of waterway); a bottleneck
• 束手就毙shù shǒu jiù bìhands tied and expecting the worst
• 束手待毙shù shǒu dài bìto wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction
• 束手就擒shù shǒu jiù qín(lit.) to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom)…
• 束脩shù xiū(literary) salary of a private tutor
• 束修shù xiūvariant of 束脩
• 束手缚脚shù shǒu fù jiǎosee 束手束脚

Words containing 束

• 结束jié shùto end; to finish; to conclude
• 约束yuē shùto restrict; to limit to; to constrain
• 拘束jū shùto restrict; to restrain; constrained
• 装束zhuāng shùattire; clothing
• 无拘无束wú jū wú shùfree and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered; unbuttoned; without care or worries
• 结束语jié shù yǔconcluding remarks
• 管束guǎn shùto exercise control over; restriction; control
• 约束力yuē shù lì(of a contract) binding (law)
• 花束huā shùbouquet
• 光束guāng shùlight beam
• 多束duō shùmultibeam (e.g. laser)
• 收束shōu shùto constrict; to draw tight; to gather (one's thoughts)
• 检束jiǎn shùto regulate; to check and restrict
• 波束bō shùbeam
• 集束jí shùto cluster
• 受约束shòu yuē shùrestricted; constrained
• 维管束wéi guǎn shùvascular bundle (botany)
• 电子束diàn zǐ shùbeam of electrons
• 约束条件yuē shù tiáo jiànrestrictive condition; constraint
• 行将结束xíng jiāng jié shùapproaching the end; about to conclude
• 法律约束力fǎ lǜ yuē shù lìlegal force (i.e. binding in law)
• 散束sàn shùscattering of bundle (of electrons in vacuum tube); debunching
• 集束炸弹jí shù zhà dàncluster bomb
• 维管束植物wéi guǎn shù zhí wùvascular plants; tracheophytes (botany)

Characters built on 口

These share the phonetic component 口 (kǒu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 如rúas; as if; such as
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 足zú(bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully
• 古gǔancient; old; paleo-
• 呼hūto call; to cry; to shout
• 吁yùto implore
• 句jùsentence; clause; phrase
• 吐tùto vomit; to throw up

Characters that look like 束

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 表biǎoexterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion)
• 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
• 隶lì(bound form) a person in servitude; low-ranking subordinate…
• 戾lìto bend; to violate; to go against

Sounds the same

Read shù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 数number; figure; several; a few
• 树tree; to cultivate; to set up
• 术method; technique
• 述(bound form) to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate
• 墅villa
• 恕to forgive
• 竖to erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
• 庶(bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡
• 戍garrison
• 漱to rinse one's mouth with water; to gargle
• 沭river in Shandong
• 澍moisture; timely rain