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  *困* | 困* | *困
to trap / to surround / hard-pressed / stranded / destitute
HSK 3
a hot tourist attraction / a tourist trap
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罩* | 罩* | *罩
to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it
HSK 7-9
to arrange; to lay out; (esp.) to set up (a trap)
to coerce (sb into doing sth bad) / to lure (into a trap) / to seduce
HSK 7-9
grease trap
Fuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852–2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing
to fall in a trap
"fish" battle formation in ancient times: chariots in front, infantry behind / The Fish Enter the Trap (title of Ode 170 in the Shijing)
to immobilize with a lasso / to be trapped in the stock market
to trap (an animal); to lure (a suspect) into a trap
to trap / to frame
trap; snare; trick
HSK 7-9
inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *陷* | 陷* | *陷
pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect
HSK 7-9
trap (for animals etc)
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  *笱* | 笱* | *笱
basket for trapping fish
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
lit. like a turtle in a jar / to be trapped (idiom)
(martial arts) to get hit; to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap; to be taken in
to trap a suspect into a confession
(dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc); a weir of similar construction used to trap fish
honey trap / sexual entrapment / CL: 條|条
to be trapped / to be imprisoned
to fall into a trap; to be taken in
to stand a siege / trapped in a besieged city
to set a trap
fallen into a trap
pitfall / pit as animal trap
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
cockroach trap
stratagem to trap sb / to bewitch and trap
trap (plumbing) / U-bend
lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. to take help for granted
cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to walk right into the trap
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阱* | 阱* | *阱
pitfall / trap
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
baited trap / booby-trap
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  *弇* | 弇* | *弇
to cover / trap
caught in (a bad situation) / to fall into (trap etc)
pitfall / snare / trap
HSK 7-9
to scam / to set a trap / to set up a scheme to defraud people
cage-like fish trap
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汕* | 汕* | *汕
bamboo fish trap / used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕頭|汕头
trapped / stranded
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
fishing pot (trap)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally / illegal mining (or logging etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *笓* | 笓* | *笓
to comb / fine-toothed comb / trap for prawns
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  *筌* | 筌* | *筌
bamboo fish trap
to lure the enemy / to trap
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist by his own petard
blue, gold and yellow (BGY), the three methods of manipulation: information control (via media and the Internet), money (bribery etc) and sexual temptation (honey trap etc)
to lure into a trap
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation
to fall into a trap / ensnared
wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes
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  *篧* | 篧* | *篧
creel for trapping fish
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *擭* | 擭* | *擭
trap
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罠* | 罠* | *罠
animal trap
no way out / nowhere to go / trapped beyond hope of rescue / painted into a corner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *簖* | 簖* | *簖
bamboo fish trap
to be trapped; to be stranded
a swindle / a trap / a racket / a scam / CL: 場|场


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