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shù = shu + Ø4: to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control

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Mnemonic symbol: a bundle of firewood.

In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), Sheldon Shrimp (shu) built a stage out of bundles of firewood (束) to put his Christmas tree (木) on. Under the tree he put his favourite food: mandarins (口).

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束 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
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Characters with 束 as component

hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
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fast / rapid / quick / velocity
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to depend on / to hang on in a place / bad / to renege (on promise) / to disclaim / to rat (on debts) / rascally / to blame / to put the blame on
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perverse / unreasonable / absurd
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Words with 束

lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
to restrict / to restrain / constrained / awkward / ill at ease / uncomfortable / reticent
hands tied and waiting to be captured
tied up in a bundle on a high shelf / to put sth on the back burner / no longer a high priority
scattering of bundle (of electrons in vacuum tube) / debunching
Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙
unfinished / unresolved
variant of 束脩[shu4 xiu1]
band / belt / loincloth / cummerbund
to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it
hands tied and expecting the worst
to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction
hands tied and expecting the worst
narrow (of waterway) / a bottleneck
restricted / constrained
multibeam (e.g. laser)
to constrict / to draw tight / to gather (one's thoughts) / to bring to a close / to pack (for a journey)

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