HSK 6 · Ideas

陷阱 xiànjǐng “trap” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 陷阱 means

  1. trap
  2. pitfall
  3. snare

How to say 陷阱

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale陷xiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale阱jǐng3rd tone, dipping

陷阱 in a sentence

  1. 这是一个陷阱！

    Zhè shì yí ge xiànjǐng!

    It’s a trap!

    Sentence #1776709 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他们利用陷阱捕捉狐狸。

    Tāmen lìyòng xiànjǐng bǔzhuō húli.

    They used a trap to catch the fox.

    Sentence #429387 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我知道怎么设陷阱。

    Wǒ zhīdao zěnme shè xiànjǐng.

    I know how to set a trap.

    Sentence #5576829 from Tatoeba

How 陷阱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 陷 (xiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
陷xiànpitfall
  • 阝place
  • 臽pit · xiàn
The character 阱 (jǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
阱jǐngpitfall
  • 阝place
  • 井well · jǐng

How to write 陷阱

陷 10 strokes · 阱 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

陷阱 (xiànjǐng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 陷阱 (xiànjǐng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 陷阱

Words with 陷

陷入xiànrù · to fall into诬陷wūxiàn · to frame陷害xiànhài · to frame缺陷quēxiàn · defect

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FAQs

陷阱 (xiànjǐng) means “trap” or “pitfall”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiànjǐng: xiàn with a 4th tone, then jǐng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 陷阱 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xianjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 陷阱 from the suggestions. Typing xianjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
陷阱 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.