Word information
Simplified造茧自缚
Traditional造繭自縛
Pinyinzào jiǎn zì fù
Part of speechDictionary
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Chinese word dictionary
造茧自缚
zào jiǎn zì fù · to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist with his own petard
Character breakdown
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