Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「作法自弊」 for your learning.
Today’s idiom is 「作法自弊」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
It means that by making laws one ends up causing harm to oneself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zuò fǎ zì bì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jok3 faat3 ji6 bai6
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