How to write 桎

桎 [zhì] 名词 1. In ancient times, a wooden leg iron used to restrain prisoners. (Ancient device used to restrain a criminal's legs: 桎梏, 桎槛) 2. To obstruct, to hinder, to bind. 动词 1. To put on fetters (给脚带上刑具) 2. To bind or to constrain (束缚，约束) 引文 1. From Shuowen Jiezi: 桎, 足械也 (桎 means foot device). 手曰梏 (On hands, it is called "gù"). 2. From I Ching: 九家坎为桎梏 (Nine families of Kǎn are fetters). Annotation: "Each hand and foot has one wooden device." 3. From I Ching: 利用刑人，用说桎梏 (Use torture, use it in reference to fetters). 4. From Zhou Li: 中罪桎梏 (The moderate crime uses fetters). Zheng Xuan's annotation: "On the hands it is called 'gù', on the feet it is called 'zhì'." 5. From Lüshi Chunqiu: 命有司省囹圄，去桎梏 (Order the official to examine prisons, remove fetters). 例句 桎拲 (A type of torture device. 拲 refers to handcuffs on both hands.) 动词 1. To put on fetters (给脚带上刑具) 引文 1. From Classic of Mountains and Seas: 帝乃梏之疏属之山, 桎其右足 (The emperor then bound him to a mountain and fettered his right foot). 2. To bind or to constrain (束缚，约束) 引文 1. From Zhuangzi: 指与物化而不以心稽，故其灵台一而不桎 (Directing with things and not being constrained by the heart, thus its spiritual platform remains undivided and unbound). 2. From Book of Jin: 儒学自桎 (Confucianism is inherently restrained). 例句 桎槛 (To be imprisoned, confined in a cage).