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束 — to bind; bunch; bundle

Pinyin
shù · Shù
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — shù, Shù — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 束: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

束 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 束 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 结束jiéshùto end; to finish; to concludeHSK 3
  2. 束shùto bind; bunch; bundleHSK 5
  3. 约束yuēshùto restrict; to limit to; to constrain; restrictionHSK 6
  4. 拘束jūshùto restrict; to restrain; constrained; awkwardHSK 7–9
  5. 束缚shùfùto bind; to tie up; to fetter; to shackleHSK 7–9
  6. 束手无策shùshǒu-wúcèlit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it; fig. helpless in the face of a crisisHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.