| 自取灭亡 |
zì qǔ miè wáng |
to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave |
| 自 |
zì |
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course |
| 自取 |
zì qǔ |
to help oneself to (food) / to invite (trouble) / to court (disaster) |
| 取 |
qǔ |
to take / to get / to choose / to fetch |
| 灭 |
miè |
to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown |
| 灭亡 |
miè wáng |
to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out / to destroy; to exterminate |
| 亡 |
wáng |
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased |
| 亡 |
wáng |
old variant of 亡 |