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自 kanji
oneself
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ジシ
Kun readings
みずからおのずからおのずと
Words with 自
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —自動巻きself-winding watch
- —自習時間study time
- —自問自答answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
- —自費出版self-publishing; publishing at one's own expense
- —自壊作用(the act of) disintegration
- —自警団員vigilante; member of a vigilante group
- —活殺自在the power of life or death
- —神色自若perfect composure; calm and collected
- —花自動車a flower-bedecked vehicle
- —貸自動車rental car; hire car
- —焼身自殺self-immolation; burning oneself to death; suicide by fire
- —自活の道independent living; means of earning one's living
- —自分の分one's share; one's portion
- —性の自由sexual freedom
- —自社製品in-house manufactured goods
- —自衛手段measures to defend oneself (for self-defense) (defence)
- —自己主張self-assertion
- —自己負担(at) one's own expense
- —自己弁護self-justification; excuse
- —自己本位self-centeredness; self-centredness; selfishness; egotism; egoism