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束縛

简 束缚 · 繁 束縛
Mandarin · pinyin shù fù

Meanings

  1. to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle
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束
shù · bind, control, restrain; bale
縛
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缚
fù · to tie
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4–4 · shu4 fu4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cuk1 bok3

Cantonese word readings for 束縛. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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verb

  1. (literary, literal) to bind; to tie up
  2. (figurative) to restrict; to constrain

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