Read Edit View history 作茧自缚 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 作茧自缚 作繭自縛 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap (idiom) to spin a cocoon around oneself; to get enmeshed in a situation of one's own making or to be trapped by one's own actions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Cross-References Synonym 吐丝自缚 tǔsīzìfùHas variant 造茧自缚 zàojiǎnzìfù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
作茧自缚 作繭自縛 zuòjiǎnzìfù to be caught in one's own trap (idiom) to spin a cocoon around oneself; to get enmeshed in a situation of one's own making or to be trapped by one's own actions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Cross-References Synonym 吐丝自缚 tǔsīzìfùHas variant 造茧自缚 zàojiǎnzìfù Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)