束手

to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it

Characters and words in 束手

surname Shu

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bundle of firewood.

= + : In the space station's bathroom, Sheldon Shrimp built a stage out of bundles of firewood to put his Christmas tree on. Under the tree he put his favourite food: mandarins.
to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bundle of firewood.

= + : In the space station's bathroom, Sheldon Shrimp built a stage out of bundles of firewood to put his Christmas tree on. Under the tree he put his favourite food: mandarins.
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Words with 束手

lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
hands tied and waiting to be captured
to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction
hands tied and expecting the worst
hands tied and expecting the worst

Sentences with 束手

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