拘束衣

jūshùyī
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 straitjacket

Examples

Bìngrén jīdòng shí bèi chuān shàng le jūshùyī.
When the patient became agitated, they were put in a straitjacket.
Diànyǐng lǐ nà ge fēngzi bèi guān jìn jīngshénbìngyuàn, tàozhe jūshùyī.
In the film, the madman is locked in the asylum wearing a straitjacket.

Tips

memory
= restrain + = bind + = garment. The two restraint characters are stacked: it's literally a 'restrain-bind shirt'. Most common in psychiatric, prison, or horror-film contexts.

Stroke Order

shù