HSK 6 · Verbs

束缚 shùfù “to restrict” in Chinese

Traditional 束縛

What 束缚 means

  1. to restrict
  2. to tie down
  3. constraint
  4. to bind
  5. to tie up
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to fetter
  • to shackle

How to say 束缚

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale束shù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale缚fù4th tone, falling

束缚 in a sentence

  1. 不要被旧的想法束缚住。

    Búyào bèi jiù de xiǎngfǎ shùfù zhù.

    Don’t let old ideas hold you back.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这件衣服太紧了，让我觉得很束缚。

    Zhè jiàn yīfu tài jǐn le, ràng wǒ juéde hěn shùfù.

    These clothes are too tight; I feel really constrained.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 束缚 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 束 (shù) with each of its parts in a different colour
束shùto bind
  • 木tree · mù
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 缚 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
缚fùto bind
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 尃to announce · fūSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 尃 (fū) hints at the sound. Compare it with fù.

How to write 束缚

束 7 strokes · 缚 13 strokes

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束缚 (shùfù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 束缚 (shùfù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 束缚

Words with 束

结束jiéshù · to end束shù · bunch约束yuēshù · to restrain拘束jūshù · ill at ease

More words: Common Verbs

收缩shōusuō · to shrink授予shòuyǔ · to award耍shuǎ · to play with率领shuàilǐng · to lead树立shùlì · to establish耸sǒng · to shrug损坏sǔnhuài · to damage塑造sùzào · to shape

FAQs

束缚 (shùfù) means “to restrict” or “to tie down”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shùfù: shù with a 4th tone, then fù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 束缚 is written 束縛. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shufu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 束缚 from the suggestions. Typing shufu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
束缚 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.