自 — Chinese character
自
zì
self; private, personal; from
- Pinyin
- zì
- Radical
- 132 ⾃ (Self)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 目
- Formation
- pictographic — A nose; in China, people refer to themselves by pointing to their noses
- Japanese
- 自 as a kanji
Common words with 自
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 来自 (來自) | lái zì | to come from (a place); From: (in email header) |
| 自然 | zì rán | nature; natural |
| 自动 (自動) | zì dòng | automatic; voluntarily |
| 自身 | zì shēn | itself; oneself |
| 自我 | zì wǒ | the self; oneself; self-; (psychology) ego |
| 自杀 (自殺) | zì shā | to kill oneself; to commit suicide |
| 各自 | gè zì | each; respective |
| 自从 (自從) | zì cóng | since (a time); ever since |
| 自行 | zì xíng | voluntary; autonomous |
| 自治区 (自治區) | zì zhì qū | autonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minorities (five in total: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ning |
English words written with 自
自 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 33 · Analects 21 · Art of War 4 · I Ching 12 · Mencius 76 · Zhuangzi 209 · Great Learning 7 · Doctrine of the Mean 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 9
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 17
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 21
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 22
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 23
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 24
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 25
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