Chinese symbol for “selfish”
自私
zì sī
selfish; selfishness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for selfish is 自私 (zì sī), defined as: selfish; selfishness.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “selfish”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 私 | sī | (bound form) personal; private; (bound form) selfish |
| 自私自利 | zì sī zì lì | everything for self and selfish profit (idiom); with no regard for others; selfish |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 自私.
| 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 |
| 私人 | sī rén | private; personal |
| 隐私 (隱私) | yǐn sī | secrets; private business |
See also: Japanese symbol for “selfish”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.