造 |
zào jiǎn zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard |
造 |
zào | to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops |
茧 |
jiǎn | (bound form) cocoon / (bound form) callus (variant of 趼) |
茧 |
jiǎn | variant of 茧 |
自 |
zì | (bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course |
缚 |
fù | to bind / to tie / Taiwan pr. [fu2] |