shù shǒu jiù qín

束手就擒 (shù shǒu jiù qín) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom); fig. to surrender without a fight”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom)
  2. 2fig. to surrender without a fight

Characters in 束手就擒

束shù · to bind手shǒu · hand就jiù · (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then擒qín · to capture

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