缚
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to bind; to tie; Taiwan pr. [fu2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 糸 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 縛
- Common rank
- #2,779
- Unicode
- U+7F1A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 缚 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
纟 meaning “thread” + 尃 sound ()
Components 纟 尃
How to remember it
bind fast · Heisig RSH #2799
thread + gummed label
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 缚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 手无缚鸡之力 | (lit.) lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (saying); (fig.) weak; unaccustomed to… | |
| 自缚手脚 | to bind oneself hand and foot | |
| 缚鸡之力 | (lit.) the strength to truss a chicken (idiom); (fig.) slight physical strength | |
| 束手缚脚 | see 束手束腳|束手束脚[shu4 shou3 shu4 jiao3] | |
| 吐丝自缚 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist w… | |
| 缚手缚脚 | (idiom) to be bound by too many restrictions | |
| 作茧自缚 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist b… | |
| 造茧自缚 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist w… | |
| 棕缚 | palm fiber; rope of palm fiber; coir (coconut fiber) | |
| 吊坠缚 | strappado bondage | |
| 束缚 | to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle | |
| 袒缚 | to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind | |
| 绑缚 | to tie up; to bind; to tether; bondage (BDSM) | |
| 捆缚 | bondage |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尃 — compare how they read.