Chinese symbol for “selfishness”
私心
sī xīn
selfishness; selfish motives
The closest CC-CEDICT match for selfishness is 私心 (sī xīn), defined as: selfishness; selfish motives.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “selfishness”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 私心.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 私人 | sī rén | private; personal |
| 隐私 (隱私) | yǐn sī | secrets; private business |
| 走私 | zǒu sī | to smuggle; to have an illicit affair |
| 自私 | zì sī | selfish; selfishness |
| 私下 | sī xià | in private |
| 私营 (私營) | sī yíng | privately-owned; private |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
See also: Japanese symbol for “selfishness”.
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.