Chinese Character Wiki

作茧自缚

zuò​jiǎn​zì​fù

hoist by his own petard

Definitions

作茧自缚 (作繭自縛) 

zuò​jiǎn​zì​fù

to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.2883% of movies

28075th most common word in movies

41647th most common word in books

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