Chinese symbol for “inhibited”
束手束脚
shù shǒu shù jiǎo
Traditional: 束手束腳
(idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inhibited is 束手束脚 (shù shǒu shù jiǎo), defined as: (idiom) restricted; constrained; inhibited.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 束手束脚.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 结束 (結束) | jié shù | to end; to finish; to conclude |
| 约束 (約束) | yuē shù | to restrict; to limit to |
| 束缚 (束縛) | shù fù | to bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackle |
| 拘束 | jū shù | to restrict; to restrain |
| 光束 | guāng shù | light beam |
| 束手无策 (束手無策) | shù shǒu wú cè | lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis |
| 手机 (手機) | shǒu jī | cell phone; mobile phone; measure word: 部 (bù), 台 (tái) |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability |
| 脚步 (腳步) | jiǎo bù | footstep; step |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.