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自 kanji
oneself
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ジシ
Kun readings
みずからおのずからおのずと
Words with 自
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —自前Popularpaying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living
- —自尊Popularself-respect; esteem; self-importance; pride
- —自他Popularoneself and others; subject and object; transitivity; transitive verbs and intransitive verbs; first person and third person; self-salvation and salvation by faith
- —自体Popularitself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally; by nature; from the start
- —自宅Popularone's home; one's house
- —自伝Popularautobiography
- —自白Popularconfession; admission
- —自発Popularspontaneity; spontaneous passive
- —自費Popularone's own expense; out-of-pocket expense
- —自筆Popularone's own handwriting; autograph; holograph
- —自負Popularpride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
- —自明Popularself-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
- —自滅Popularself-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
- —自律Popularautonomy; self-control; self-discipline; autonomy (in Kantian ethics)
- —自力Popularone's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
- —自問Popularasking oneself
- —自任Popularregarding oneself (as); fancying oneself (as); seeing oneself (as); considering oneself (to be); pretension
- —自決Popularself-determination; suicide
- —自室Popularone's own room
- —自助Popularself-help; self-reliance