English
- pitfall, trap, snare
- pitfall
- trap
Variants
Words containing 阱
- 陷阱haam6 zeng6
pitfall
- 氣阱hei3 zing6
air pocket
- 勢阱sai3 zing6
potential well (physics)
- 糖衣陷阱tong4 ji1 ham6 zing6
sweet poison; literally: sugarcoated trap
- 量子阱loeng4 zi2 zing6
(physics) quantum well
- 墮下陷阱do6 haa6 ham6 zeng6
- 修昔底德陷阱sau1 sik1 dai2 dak1 haam6 zing6
Thucydides Trap (theory that war may result when a rising power threatens to displace an established power)