to bind; bunch; bundle; classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc; to control

to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle

lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis

(lit.) to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom); (fig.) to surrender without a fight

variant of 束脩[shu4 xiu1]

to tie up one's hair; (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)

to have one's hands tied; helpless; unable to do anything about it

narrow (of waterway); a bottleneck

gird; tighten

to bind one's breasts; breast binder

(literary) salary of a private tutor

girdle

corset; girdle

corset (clothing)

to bundle up (one's possessions for a journey)

to bind oneself; submission

cable tie

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

hands tied and expecting the worst

to wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction

(idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited

see 束手束腳|束手束脚[shu4 shou3 shu4 jiao3]

corset