Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

禁足

jìnzú

ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄗㄨˊ

  1. 1to forbid sb to go out
  2. 2to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc)
  3. 3to ground (as disciplinary measure)
  4. 4to gate
  5. 5to curfew
  6. 6restriction on movement
  7. 7ban on visiting a place
  8. 8out of bounds
  9. 9off limits
  10. 10caveat
Example

你下次再這樣頂嘴,我就禁足你,小姐。

nǐ xiàcì zài zhèyàng dǐngzuǐ wǒ jiù jìnzú nǐ xiǎojie

Next time you talk back to me like that, I'm grounding you on the spot, young lady.

Keep 禁足 and it comes back until you know it.

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