束手就缚束手就縛

束手就缚束手就縛 in English

shù shǒu jiù fù: (idiom) To offer no resistance and willingly allow oneself to be captured. It is synonymous with “submit oneself to capture.”

Character breakdown

束 shù to bind
手 shǒu hand
就 jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that c…
缚縛 fù to bind

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 就 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 就

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

How it used to be written

束

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

手

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

就

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

缚

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

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

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