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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
- —自讃self-praise; praising oneself
- —自修self-study; teaching oneself
- —自撰selecting from one's own works; one's own selection
- —自働automatic
- —自乗square (of a number); multiplying (a number) by itself; second power
- —自辨paying one's own expenses
- —自論one's cherished opinion; pet theory
- —自註self-annotation of one's writings
- —自瀆masturbation
- —自毛real hair; one's own hair
- —自撮taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture
- —自強strenuous effort
- —觀自在Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion
- —自働化automation
- —自由型freestyle (e.g. swimming event)
- —喉自慢person proud of their voice; amateur singing contest
- —自然生Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
- —自ままselfish(ness)
- —御自身yourself; himself; herself
- —自縛霊ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)