造茧自缚 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 造繭自縛 zàojiǎnzìfù ㄗㄠˋ ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄗˋ ㄈㄨˋ to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising hoist with his own petard Character by character 造(zào)make 茧(jiǎn)cocoon 自(zì)self 缚(fù)bind A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0