牢笼
Meanings
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
Characters used
Examples1
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.