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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *束* | 束* | *束
to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control
HSK 3
termination / to finish / to end / to conclude / to close
HSK 3
to restrict / to limit to / to constrain / restriction / constraint
HSK 5
to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
restrictive condition / constraint
to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *束* | 束* | *束
surname Shu
light beam
unrestricted
to restrict / to restrain / constrained / awkward / ill at ease / uncomfortable / reticent
HSK 7-9
to constrict / to draw tight / to gather (one's thoughts) / to bring to a close / to pack (for a journey)
restricted / constrained
lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom) / fig. to surrender without a fight
hands tied and expecting the worst
beam of electrons
(of a contract) binding (law)
(idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
corset / girdle
concluding remarks
bouquet
unfinished / unresolved
free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered / unbuttoned / without care or worries
to regulate / to check and restrict
to exercise control over / restriction; control
to cluster
girdle
tied up in a bundle on a high shelf / to put sth on the back burner / no longer a high priority
hands tied and expecting the worst
beam of elementary particles
to bundle up (one's possessions for a journey)
lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction
to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it
cable tie
(literary) salary of a private tutor
narrow (of waterway) / a bottleneck
attire / clothing
legal force (i.e. binding in law)
Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙
cluster bomb
beam
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
corset (clothing)
vascular plants / tracheophytes (botany)
scattering of bundle (of electrons in vacuum tube) / debunching
vascular bundle (botany)
to bind oneself / submission
corset
multibeam (e.g. laser)
approaching the end / about to conclude
straightjacket
gird / tighten
(chemistry) micelle
variant of 束脩


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