自寻死路 — Chinese idiom
自寻死路
zì xún sǐ lù
Traditional: 自尋死路
Meaning
- to follow the path to one's own doom
- to bring about one's own destruction
Character by character
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 寻xúnto seek; to search for, to look for; ancient
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 路lùroad, path, street; journey
Idioms sharing a character
- 不敢自专 bù gǎn zì zhuān
- 不由自主 bù yóu zì zhǔ
- 不自量力 bù zì liàng lì
- 不言自明 bù yán zì míng
- 任其自然 rèn qí zì rán
- 作茧自缚 zuò jiǎn zì fù
- 优游自得 yōu yóu zì dé
- 出自肺腑 chū zì fèi fǔ
- 刚愎自用 gāng bì zì yòng
- 卑以自牧 bēi yǐ zì mù
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