作茧 (作繭) zuòjiǎn
zuòjiǎn
verb
to make a cocoon
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Zoology
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '作繭')
Contained in
- 作茧自缚(作繭自縛) to spin a cocoon around oneself; enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising ; to spin a cocoon around oneself
- 飞蛾投火，作茧自缚(飛蛾投火，作繭自縛) like a moth flying into the flame, and a silkworm trapping itself in a cocoon
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 9 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 2
- Scroll 15 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
- Scroll 3 Notes on the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 — count: 2
- Scroll 4 Supplement to the Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 續一切經音義 — count: 2
- Scroll 4 Notes on the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 — count: 2
- Scroll 3 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 5 Laṅkāvatārasūtra (Ru Lengjia Jing) 入楞伽經 — count: 1
- Scroll 5 Laṅkāvatārasūtra (Dasheng Ru Lengjia Jing) 大乘入楞伽經 — count: 1
- Scroll 2 Cibei Shui Chanfa 慈悲水懺法 — count: 1
- Scroll 6 Zhu Dasheng Ru Lengjia Jing 注大乘入楞伽經 — count: 1
Collocations
- 蚕作茧 (蠶作繭) 譬如蠶作繭 — Fa Ju JIng (Dharmapada) 法句經, Scroll 2 — count: 39