Taxonomy of meanings for 縛:　　

  • 縛 bò (OC: baals MC: buɑ) 符卧切 去 廣韻：【符臥切一 】
  • 縛 fù (OC: baɡ MC: bʷiɐk) 符钁切 入 廣韻：【繫也符钁切一 】
    • BIND
      • nabfigurativebondage
      • vtoNtie up, wrap up; put in fetters
      • vtoNfigurativebind, create bondage for
      • vtoNpassivebe put in fetters by; be tied up by
      • vtoNfigurativebe bound, be tied up
      • vtoNreflexive.自bind (oneself); entangle (oneself); get entangled
      • vpostadVpassivewith hands tied behind one's back
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2have N1 tied and bring it to N2DS
    • FETTERS
      • nfetters
    • WRAP
      • vtoNwrap up
    • RESTRICT
      • NOMINAL MEASURE WORDS

        Additional information about 縛

        說文解字: 【縛】，束也。从糸、尃聲。 【符钁切】

          Criteria
        • BIND

          [ABSTRACT/CONCRETE]

          [+FIG/LITERAL]

          1. The general word for tying things together into a bundle is shù 束 (ant. jiě 解 "untie"), and the word generally refers to the tying of things together in a bundle-like manner and not to the tying up of humans.

          [CONCRETE]

          2. Fú 縛 (ant. jiě 解 "untie") is primarily to tie up a person with a rope to restrict his freedom of movement, but ther word can also, by extension, be used to refer to tying up things.

          [CONCRETE]

          3. Guàn 貫 is to string things together as in a string of cash in the traditional Chinese style, but the word is also used in transferred senses.

          [SPECIFIC], [+FIG]

          4. Wéi 維 refers - often in an abstract way - to the tying together or connecting of things.

          [ABSTRACT!]

          There is a large number or more or less rare words which refer in hardly distinguishable ways to the tying together of things.

          Word relations
        • Assoc: (BIND)束/BIND The general word for tying things together into a bundle is shù 束 (ant. jiě 解 "untie"), and the word generally refers to the tying of things together in a bundle-like manner and not to the tying up of humans.