(shù) - to bind; bundle (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
shùTraditional: 束
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Translation
to bind; bundle (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideograph showing 木 (a tree or wood) bound around the middle by 口, depicting something tied up, hence a bundle or to bind.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 木 (wood) bound by 口 (an encircling band)
Stroke order
束
Examples
。
The meeting is over.
课？
When does the class end?
。
The film just ended.
玫瑰。
He gave her a bunch of roses.
。
There is a bunch of flowers on the table.
束 (shù) means to bind or a bundle; in everyday speech it mostly turns up in 结束 (jiéshù), to end.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 束.
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