束手无策 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 束手無策 shùshǒuwúcè ㄕㄨˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄨˊ ㄘㄜˋ lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom) fig. helpless in the face of a crisis Character by character 束(shù)bind 手(shǒu)hand 无(wú)not to have 策(cè)policy A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0