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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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ジシ
Kun readings
みずからおのずからおのずと
Words with 自
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —自由奔放free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling
- —自由闊達free and easy; open and natural; not fastidious
- —自力更生working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help
- —闊達自在broad-minded and free in disposition; large-hearted and not scrupulous about trifles
- —自分の力one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
- —自由世界the free world (historically as opposed to the Communist bloc)
- —厭世自殺killing oneself out of despair (for life)
- —各自負担joint and several liability; each individual being responsible for the payment of his share of the purchase price, expense, etc.
- —自家本位self-centeredness; selfishness; egoism; egotism; egocentricity
- —自己演出author directing or producing his or her own play (film); staging oneself for effect; presenting oneself in a favorable light
- —自己啓発self-development; self-enlightenment
- —自己実現self-actualization; self-fulfillment; self-realization
- —自己陶酔narcissism; self-absorption; self-intoxication
- —自己撞着self-contradiction; self-inconsistency
- —自己肥大self-aggrandizement; self-glorification; something becoming large by feeding upon itself
- —自己保全self-protection; self-preservation
- —自己満悦self-congratulation
- —自己抑制self-restraint; self-control; abstinence
- —自作自演performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
- —自浄能力self-cleansing power; being capable of purifying oneself