擭

huò
trap

CEDICT

  1. (archaic) wooden cage for trapping animals
  2. alternative form of 濩
  3. wooden cage for trapping animals

Wiktionary

捕捉野兽的机关木笼。

重編國語辭典

  1. 捕捉野兽的机关木头笼子
  2. 濩的另一种写法

維基詞典

Homographs

擭 wò

Related entries

存水弯 cúnshuǐwān
  1. trap (plumbing)
  2. U-bend
捉捕器 zhuōbǔqì trap (for animals etc)
天罗地网 tiānluódìwǎng
  1. inescapable net (idiom)
  2. trap
  3. dragnet
弇 yǎn
  1. to cover
  2. trap
牢笼 láolóng
  1. cage
  2. trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
  3. fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
  4. shackles (of past misconceptions)
  5. to trap
  6. to shackle
人获得自由，究竟意味着什么？难道就是从一个牢笼里巧妙地逃出来，其实只是置身于另一个更大的牢笼。

What does obtaining freedom really mean? It may seem like cleverly escaping out of a cage, but one just ends up in another bigger cage.

Source: Tatoeba

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