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束手

shù shǒu

2-character word

What 束手 means

1. to have one's hands tied
2. helpless
3. unable to do anything about it

The characters in 束手

• 束shùto bind; bunch; bundle
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Example sentences

• 当我听到这个消息时, 我束手无策。
  Dāng wǒ tīngdào zhège xiāoxi shí, wǒ shùshǒuwúcè.
  I was at my wit's end when I heard the news.

Words starting with 束手

• 束手无策shù shǒu wú cèlit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom)…
• 束手待死shù shǒu dài sǐhands tied and expecting the worst
• 束手束脚shù shǒu shù jiǎo(idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
• 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)…
• 束手缚脚shù shǒu fù jiǎosee 束手束脚

Sounds the same

Read shù shǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 戍守to guard