缚 (fù): to bind, to tie, Taiwan pr.
缚 (fù) is a Chinese character meaning “to bind.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 尃 (phonetic). It ranks #2470 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 缚 thread. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lěi, to accumulate), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- to bind
- to tie
- Taiwan pr.
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 束缚 | shù fù | to bind |
| 作茧自缚 | zuò jiǎn zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) |
| 手无缚鸡之力 | shǒu wú fù jī zhī lì | lit. lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (saying) |
| 自缚手脚 | zì fù shǒu jiǎo | to bind oneself hand and foot |
| 缚鸡之力 | fù jī zhī lì | lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom) |
| 束手缚脚 | shù shǒu fù jiǎo | see 束手束腳|束手束脚[shu4 shou3 shu4 jiao3] |
| 造茧自缚 | zào jiǎn zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) |
| 吐丝自缚 | tǔ sī zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) |
| 缚手缚脚 | fù shǒu fù jiǎo | (idiom) to be bound by too many restrictions |
| 吊坠缚 | diào zhuì fù | strappado bondage |
| 袒缚 | tǎn fù | to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind |
| 绑缚 | bǎng fù | to tie up |
| 捆缚 | kǔn fù | bondage |
| 棕缚 | zōng fù | palm fiber |
缚 appears in 14 compound words: 14 as the first character, 64 as the last, and 21 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 缚 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom); fig. slight physical strength
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist with his own petard
lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom); fig. slight physical strength
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist with his own petard
Example Sentences
缚字在不同的语境中有不同的用法。
fù zì zài bù tóng de yǔ jìng zhōng yǒu bù tóng de yòng fǎ .
The character "缚" has different usages in different contexts.
我想她想要的是束缚与支配。
Wǒ xiǎng tā xiǎngyào de shì shùfù yǔ zhīpèi.
I guess she's into bondage and domination.
Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
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