瓮中之鳖 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 甕中之鱉 wèngzhōngzhībiē ㄨㄥˋ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄓ ㄅㄧㄝ lit. like a turtle in a jar to be trapped (idiom) Character by character 瓮(wèng)earthen jar 中(zhōng)middle 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 鳖(biē)softshell turtle A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0