Read Edit View history 作茧自缚 zuòjiǎnzìfù self-entrapment Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 作茧自缚 (作繭自縛) zuòjiǎnzìfù self-entrapment idiom To spin a cocoon around oneself; to be enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising or hoist by one's own petard. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
作茧自缚 (作繭自縛) zuòjiǎnzìfù self-entrapment idiom To spin a cocoon around oneself; to be enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising or hoist by one's own petard. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.540 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.413 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)