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搬起石头砸自己的脚

bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo

9-character word Traditional 搬起石頭砸自己的腳

What 搬起石头砸自己的脚 means

1. to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)
2. hoisted by one's own petard

The characters in 搬起石头砸自己的脚

• 搬bānto move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 石shírock; stone; stone inscription
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 砸záto smash; to pound; to fail
• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 己jǐself; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 脚jiǎofoot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object)