"Bound" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 tiào yuè to jump / to leap / to bound / to skip
 biān jì limit / bound / boundary / (economics) marginal
 dìng jiè demarcation / boundary / delimited / bound (math.)
 xiàn to limit / to restrict / (bound form) limit / bound
 Ní (literary) small child / limit / bound / extremity / to differentiate / origin / cause
 zòng bù to stride / to bound
 bǎo xiǎn insurance / to insure / safe / secure / be sure / be bound to / CL:份[fen4]
 zhù dìng to foreordain / to be bound to / to be destined to / to be doomed to / inevitably
 bì dìng to be bound to / to be sure to
 shì bì to be bound to / undoubtedly will
 shàng xiàn upper bound
 shǎo bu liǎo cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many
 zǒng děi must / have to / be bound to
 xī xī xiāng guān closely bound up (idiom) / intimately related
 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
 dà jiǎo naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳|小脚[xiao3 jiao3]) / long kick (soccer) / Bigfoot (mythological animal)
 xiǎo jiǎo bound feet (traditional)
 hé dìng běn bound volume / one-volume edition
 zé wú páng dài to be duty bound / to be one's unshirkable responsibility
 xià jiè lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
 yuè jiè to cross a border / to overstep a bound
 yī bù dēng tiān reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom) / (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
 suō shǒu suō jiǎo bound hand and foot (idiom) / constrained
 wàng to go (in a direction) / to / towards / (of a train) bound for / past / previous
 dā bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
 piān sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article
 Zhèng bound form used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4] and 雅鄭|雅郑[ya3 zheng4]
 quǎn bound in a league
 lā meaningless bound form used only in 邋遢[la1 ta5]
 wǎn bound form used in 紫菀[zi3 wan3]
 níng (used as a bound form in 薴烯|苧烯[ning2 xi1], limonene) / tangled / in disarray
 xiāng qīn xiāng ài to be kind and love one another (idiom) / bound by deep emotions
 jiāo bīng bì bài lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom) / fig. pride goes before a fall
 āi bīng bì shèng an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
 wèi néng miǎn sú unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
 Huáng tiān bù fù kǔ xīn rén Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
 yán duō bì shī if you say too much, you're bound to slip up at some point (idiom)
 yī yuè ér qǐ to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound
 shàng jiè upper bound
 shàng què jiè supremum (math.) / least upper bound
 xià què jiè infimum (math.) / greatest lower bound
 liǎng hǔ xiāng zhēng , bì yǒu yī shāng if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt
 gū má to become numb (from being bound too tightly)
蹿 cuān tiào to bound forward / to bound along
 shù fù shuǐ bound water
 líng xià jiè zero lower bound / zero bound
  consent to be bound by a treaty
 miǎn bu de unavoidable / bound to (happen)
 dà nàn bù sǐ , bì yǒu hòu fú one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
 gōng zú bound feet
 bì shèng to be certain of victory / to be bound to prevail
 tā meaningless bound form used only in 邋遢[la1 ta5] / Taiwan pr. [ta4]
 lè bound form used in 簕竹[le4 zhu2]
 qǔ bound form used only in 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜[qu3 mai3 cai4] / Taiwan pr. [ju4]
 sōng bound form used in 蜙蝑[song1 xu1]
 xū bound form used in 蜙蝑[song1 xu1]
 xià xiàn lower bound
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