自食惡果 zì shí è guǒ

DEFINITIONS

  1. lit. to eat one's own bitter fruit (idiom)
  2. fig. to suffer the consequences of one's own actions
  3. to stew in one's own juice

CHARACTERS

自 zì
HSK 3
self, private, personal; from
食 shí
HSK 5
eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184
惡 è evil, wicked, bad, foul
果 guǒ
HSK 1
fruit; result