Word data

HSK Not in HSK

FREQUENCY Unknown

造茧自缚 zào jiǎn zì fù

trap yourself with your own actions

HSK	Not in HSK
Frequency	Unknown

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

Character	Meaning
造 zào HSK 5	to make; to manufacture; to build
茧 jiǎn	cocoon; callus; variant of 繭jiǎn
自 zì HSK 3	self; oneself; from
缚 fù HSK 6	to bind; to tie; Taiwan pr. fú