束手缚脚 束手縛腳
束手缚脚束手縛腳 in English
- (idiom) To have one's hands and feet tied. To be overly cautious and constrained by concerns, unable to act freely.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
束
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
手
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
缚
These are the forms of 縛, the traditional character: 缚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 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).