搬石頭砸自己的腳

1. • to move a stone and stub one's toe
2. • to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)

Character by character

• 搬(bān)move
• 石(shí)surname Shi
• 頭(tou)suffix for nouns
• 砸(zá)smash
• 自(zì)self
• 己(jǐ)self
• 的(de)marks possession and modification
• 腳(jiǎo)foot