玩火自焚 wánhuǒzìfén to play with fire and get burned Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 玩火 wánhuǒ verb + noun to play with fire to ignite or handle fire for amusement; to play with fire literally自焚 zìfén to bring about one's own destruction to cause one's own downfall through one's own actions; to incinerate oneself metaphorically