掣肘 chèzhǒu

chèzhǒu noun to hold somebody by the elbow; to hold back; to impede; to handicap
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '掣肘'; Guoyu '掣肘'; Mathews 1931 '掣肘', p. 35)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Shen Seng Chuan 神僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 6 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 3 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Jie Mi Xian Zhi Cheng Bei Shi Ming Lun 解迷顯智成悲十明論 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 掣肘径 (掣肘徑) 而學者亦思掣肘徑去 — Jie Mi Xian Zhi Cheng Bei Shi Ming Lun 解迷顯智成悲十明論, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 几掣肘 (幾掣肘) 逗到冷泉幾掣肘 — Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄, Scroll 3 — count: 2