瓮中之鳖 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• lit. like a turtle in a jar
• to be trapped

Character by character

• 瓮wèngurn, earthen jar
• 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target),
• 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
• 鳖biēturtle

Idioms sharing a character

• 瓮中捉鳖 wèng zhōng zhuō biē
• 瓮声瓮气 wèng shēng wèng qì
• 蓬户瓮牖 péng hù wèng yǒu
• 请君入瓮 qǐng jūn rù wèng
• 一矢中的 yī shǐ zhòng dì
• 一语中的 yī yǔ zhòng dì
• 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
• 中西合璧 Zhōng Xī hé bì
• 人中龙凤 rén zhōng lóng fèng
• 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.