| 搬起石头砸自己的脚 |
bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo |
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard |
| 搬 |
bān |
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 石 |
Shí |
surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家庄, the capital of Hebei |
| 石 |
dàn |
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] |
| 石 |
shí |
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 |
| 石头 |
shí tou |
stone / CL:块 |
| 头 |
tóu |
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:个 |
| 头 |
tou |
suffix for nouns |
| 砸 |
zá |
to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle |
| 自 |
zì |
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course |
| 自己 |
zì jǐ |
oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 己 |
jǐ |
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa |
| 的 |
de |
of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs |
| 的 |
dī |
(bound form) a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士) |
| 的 |
dí |
really and truly |
| 的 |
dì |
(bound form) bull's-eye; target |
| 脚 |
jiǎo |
foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL:双,只 / classifier for kicks |
| 脚 |
jué |
role (variant of 角) |