Kanji1 / 6
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
- —自慰masturbation; onanism; self-consolation
- —自賛self-praise; praising oneself
- —自重self-respect; prudence; not acting rashly; restraining oneself; taking care of oneself; being careful with one's health
- —自席one's seat; one's desk
- —自説one's personal opinion
- —自選selecting from one's own works; one's own selection; voting for oneself
- —自認admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
- —自縛being circumscribed by one's own words and actions
- —自暴despair; desperation; abandonment
- —自嘲self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
- —刀自lady; madame; matron; mistress (of a household); housewife
- —自弁paying one's own expenses
- —自戒self-admonition
- —自生natural growth; wild growth
- —自害suicide (carried out with a blade, gun, etc.)
- —自刃suicide by the sword
- —自尽suicide
- —自序authors preface
- —自今from now on; hereafter
- —自足self-sufficiency; self-satisfaction