Kanji1 / 6
自 kanji
oneself
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
Choose this kanji to write on five sheets. Save your practice to revisit it in My writing.
On readings
ジシ
Kun readings
みずからおのずからおのずと
Words with 自
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —自助努力self-help efforts; independent efforts; self-supporting endeavor
- —自信喪失loss of (self-)confidence; inferiority complex
- —自重自愛taking care of oneself; looking after oneself
- —自重自戒being prudent and cautious; caution oneself against
- —自分本位self-centeredness; selfishness; egotism; egocentricity
- —縦横自在freely; right and left; active without any restraint; with unrestricted energy in all directions
- —自由勝手free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes
- —自由裁量latitude; (at one's) discretion; discretionary powers; a free hand
- —自由三昧free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes
- —出没自在appearing and disappearing at will; elusive; phantom-like
- —従容自若having presence of mind; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed; with serenity
- —自力本願salvation by one's own efforts; self-reliance
- —独立自存independence and self-reliance
- —如意自在freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases
- —変通自在freely adaptable, very flexible, nimble in adaptation
- —奔放自在free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling; totally uninhibited
- —自己臭症body odour problem (odor); bromidrosis; bromhidrosis
- —自分でもI, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
- —三割自治the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments
- —自閉症児autistic child