画地为牢 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 畫地為牢 huàdìwéiláo ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄧˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄌㄠˊ lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities Character by character 画(huà)draw 地(dì)earth 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 牢(láo)pen A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0