自討苦吃 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 自讨苦吃 zìtǎokǔchī ㄗˋ ㄊㄠˇ ㄎㄨˇ ㄔ to ask for trouble to make a rod for one's own back idiom Character by character 自(zì)self 討(tǎo)invite 苦(kǔ)bitter 吃(chī)eat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0