verb #22,020

Meanings

  1. 1 to restrain
  2. 2 to bind
  3. 3 to detain

Examples

Tā bù shòu rènhé jī bàn, zìyóu zìzài de shēnghuó.
He lives free and unrestrained, bound by nothing.
Zhè pǐ mǎ bèi jī zài mǎjiù lǐ.
This horse was tethered in the stable.

Tips

register
is a classical/literary character rarely used alone in modern speech. It appears in compounds like 羁绊 (jī bàn, fetters/bonds) and the common phrase (bù jī, unrestrained/uninhibited).

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