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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fù | fu4
English translation
to bind
to tie
Taiwan pr. [fú]
to tie, to bind

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb-like morpheme / 动词性语素 Dòngcí xìng yǔsù

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thread

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

纟尃

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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半步离不开 lí bu kāi 轮椅 lún yǐ duì de 束缚 shùfù

her confinement to a wheelchair

女性 nǚ xìng 往往 wǎngwǎng 受到 shòudào 家庭 jiātíng 责任 zérèn 期望值 qī wàng zhí de 束缚 shùfù

Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.

他们 tā men yǒu 孩子 háizi 当然 dāngrán jiù shòu 学校 xuéxiào 假期 jià qī de 束缚 shùfù

They had children and were consequently tied to the school holidays.

国王 guówáng 只不过 zhǐ bu guò shì gěi le 这些 zhè xiē 政客 zhèng kè 自缚 de 绳子 shéngzi

The King has merely given the politicians enough rope to hang themselves.

我们 wǒmen 开始 kāishǐ jiù 说好 shuō hǎo le 不会 bù huì 互相 hùxiāng 束缚 shùfù .

We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
束缚 shùfù to bind束縛
to bind
作茧自缚 zuò jiǎn zì fù hoist by his own petard作繭自縛
手无缚鸡之力 shǒu wú fù jī zhī lì fig. weak手無縛雞之力
绑缚 bǎng fù to tie up綁縛
捆缚 kǔn fù bondage捆縛

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Decomposition

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