Entry
搬bān起qǐ石shí头tou砸zá自zì己jǐ的de脚jiǎo

  1. 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

    trad. 搬起石頭砸自己的腳

Also written 搬起石頭砸自己的腳【bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo】

Characters in this word

9
起
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Pinyin
qǐ
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
Words starting with 起Words ending in 起Anywhere in a word
的
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"), also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

Pinyin
de
Strokes
8
Frequency
1 of 2500
Words starting with 的Words ending in 的Anywhere in a word