槍打出頭鳥

1. • the shot hits the bird that pokes its head out (idiom)
2. • nonconformity gets punished

Character by character

• 槍(qiāng)surname Qiang
• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 出(chū)go out
• 頭(tóu)head
• 鳥(niǎo)bird