跳 跃 tiào yuè to jump / to leap / to bound / to skip 边 际 biān jì limit / bound / boundary / (economics) marginal 定 界 dìng jiè demarcation / boundary / delimited / bound (math.) 限 xiàn to limit / to restrict / (bound form) limit / bound 倪 Ní (literary) small child / (literary) limit / bound / extremity / (literary) to differentiate / (literary) origin / cause 纵 步 zòng bù to stride / to bound 保 险 bǎo xiǎn insurance / to insure / safe / secure / be sure / be bound to / CL:份[fen4] 注 定 zhù dìng to foreordain / to be bound to / to be destined to / to be doomed to / inevitably 必 定 bì dìng to be bound to / to be sure to 势 必 shì bì to be bound to / undoubtedly will 早 晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future 上 限 shàng xiàn upper bound 少 不 了 shǎo bu liǎo cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many 总 得 zǒng děi must / have to / be bound to 息 息 相 关 xī xī xiāng guān closely bound up (idiom) / intimately related 束 手 无 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 大 脚 dà jiǎo naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳|小脚[xiao3 jiao3]) / long kick (soccer) / Bigfoot (mythological animal) 小 脚 xiǎo jiǎo bound feet (traditional) 合 订 本 hé dìng běn bound volume / one-volume edition 责 无 旁 贷 zé wú páng dài to be duty bound / to be one's unshirkable responsibility 下 界 xià jiè lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals 越 界 yuè jiè to cross a border / to overstep a bound 一 步 登 天 yī bù dēng tiān reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom) / (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success 缩 手 缩 脚 suō shǒu suō jiǎo bound hand and foot (idiom) / constrained 往 wàng to go (in a direction) / to / towards / (of a train) bound for / past / previous 视 shì (literary, or bound form) to look at 答 dā bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1ying5], 答理[da1li5] etc 篇 piān sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article 伶 líng (old) actor / actress / (meaningless bound form) 苧 níng (used as a bound form in 薴烯|苧烯[ning2 xi1], limonene) / tangled / in disarray 骄 兵 必 败 jiāo bīng bì bài lit. an arrogant army is bound to lose (idiom) / fig. pride goes before a fall 哀 兵 必 胜 āi bīng bì shèng an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom) 未 能 免 俗 wèi néng miǎn sú unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions 皇 天 不 负 苦 心 人 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. 言 多 必 失 yán duō bì shī if you say too much, you're bound to slip up at some point (idiom) 一 跃 而 起 yī yuè ér qǐ to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound 上 界 shàng jiè upper bound 上 确 界 shàng què jiè supremum (math.) / least upper bound 下 确 界 xià què jiè (math.) infimum / greatest lower bound 两 虎 相 争 , 必 有 一 伤 liǎng hǔ xiāng zhēng , bì yǒu yī shāng lit. if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / fig. if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt 箍 麻 gū má to become numb (from being bound too tightly) 蹿 跳 cuān tiào to bound forward / to bound along 束 缚 水 shù fù shuǐ bound water 零 下 界 líng xià jiè zero lower bound / zero bound 同 意 受 条 约 约 束 consent to be bound by a treaty 免 不 得 miǎn bu de unavoidable / bound to (happen) 大 难 不 死 , 必 有 后 福 dà nàn bù sǐ , bì yǒu hòu fú one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb) 弓 足 gōng zú bound feet 必 胜 bì shèng to be certain of victory / to be bound to prevail 下 限 xià xiàn lower bound 三 寸 金 莲 sān cùn jīn lián (historical) bound foot (esp. one only three inches long, considered the ideal size of a woman's foot)