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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
- —入水自殺suicide by drowning
- —自死遺族suicide survivor (i.e. family member of someone who has committed suicide); survivor of suicide
- —自死遺児child who has survived the suicide of a parent; child of a person who committed suicide
- —自由討議free discussion
- —自分持ちpaying for oneself; (at) one's own expense
- —自動送信automatic transmission (sending)
- —自力回向attempting to reach enlightenment only through merit one has accumulated by oneself
- —間接自慢indirect bragging (esp. on social media; by casually showing off something bragworthy as if it were unintended)
- —自動入力automatic input
- —参加自由free-for-all; open-to-all; optional (to participate in); non-compulsory
- —自由参加free-for-all; open-to-all; optional (to participate in); non-compulsory
- —自宅出産giving birth at home; home delivery; home birth
- —自己解離self-ionization (e.g. of water); self-dissociation; autoionization; autodissociation
- —自転車道bicycle path; bicycle lane; bikeway
- —自分語りgoing on about oneself; talking about oneself
- —自由課題freeform assignment (esp. one to be completed over the summer break)
- —自己鍛錬self-discipline; self-improvement
- —自殺予防suicide prevention
- —自動返信automated response; autoresponse; autoreply
- —自主開発independent development