束手

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

Characters and words in 束手

束
shù = shu + Ø4
to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control
Add a new mnemonic for 束 = 口 + 木
束 = 口 + 木 : 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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手
shǒu = sh + ou3
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]
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Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
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Words with 束手

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

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