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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
- —自機one's character or vehicle; player-controlled character or vehicle; one's aircraft; aircraft one is piloting
- —自切autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
- —即自in itself
- —対自being-for-others (philosophical term used by Hegel and Sartre); être-en-soi
- —自陣one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)
- —自宗one's religious sect
- —自色characteristic colour of a pure mineral (color)
- —陸自Japan Ground Self-Defense Force; JGSDF
- —自殖self-propagation; self-fertilization; selfing
- —自噴gushing forth (e.g. of oil); spouting; natural emergence (of a hot spring)
- —自損self-inflicted injury, loss, etc.
- —自死suicide; apoptosis
- —自閉social withdrawal (in schizophrenia); autosynnoia; social isolation; autism
- —自演playing a part in one's own play, film, etc.; directing one's own play, film, etc.
- —自園one's own garden; one's own cultivated land
- —自彊strenuous effort
- —空自Air Self-Defense Force; ASDF
- —自風seat wind
- —自然occurring naturally (without human influence)
- —自担one's favourite member of an idol group