敛手束脚斂手束腳 in English
- (idiom) Describes limbs that cannot stretch freely because of the cold. It also refers to acting cautiously and hesitantly because of too many reservations.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
敛
These are the forms of 斂, the traditional character: 敛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
手
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
束
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
脚
These are the forms of 腳, the traditional character: 脚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Qin bamboo slips 秦
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).