敛手束脚 斂手束腳

敛手束脚斂手束腳 in English

liǎn shǒu shù jiǎo
(idiom) Describes limbs that cannot stretch freely because of the cold. It also refers to acting cautiously and hesitantly because of too many reservations.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 手 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 手 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 束 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 束 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 脚 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 脚 Show the animation
Le caractère 腳 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 斂, the traditional character: 敛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 腳, the traditional character: 脚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 腳 Small seal script
  • Qin bamboo slips: 腳 Qin bamboo slips

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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