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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
- —自己放任self-neglect
- —性的自由sexual freedom
- —自動操舵self-steering (boat); automatic steering
- —自主管理self-management; self-imposed control
- —自己隔離self-isolation
- —自慰史観self-congratulatory historical view; uncritical view of (Japanese) history
- —外出自粛refraining from going outside; staying indoors
- —自食作用autophagy
- —自粛警察self-appointed enforcer of business closure and stay-at-home requests during the COVID-19 pandemic; pandemic police; virus vigilante
- —ガス自殺gas suicide; suicide by inhalation of gas
- —練炭自殺charcoal-burning suicide
- —自己分泌autocrine
- —自己肯定self-affirmation; self-approval
- —自主防衛autonomous (national) defence; self-reliant defence
- —自殺願望suicidal tendency; suicidal wish
- —自校給食on-site provision of school meals
- —自校方式system of preparing school meals on-site
- —自分一人(on) one's own; (by) oneself
- —自主廃業voluntary liquidation; voluntary closure (of business)
- —自我障害ego derangement; ego disturbance