自己
zì jǐ 4–3
oneself; one's own
- Characters
- 2
- 自 · 己
- Syllables
- 2
- zì jǐ
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 56
Part of speech: r,v
Character by character
- 自zì6 strokesHSK 2self, private, personal; from; Kangxi radical 132
- 己jǐ3 strokesHSK 2self, oneself; personal, private; 6th heavenly stem
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
自己做！
Zì jǐ zuò
Do it yourself!
做自己就好。
Zuò zì jǐ jiù hǎo
Just be yourself.
我自己做的。
Wǒ zì jǐ zuò de
I made it myself.
他自己进去。
Tā zì jǐ jìn qù
He went in by himself.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 自己. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 自zìHSK 4
self; oneself; from; since; naturally; surely
- 来自lái zìHSK 2
to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
- 自然zì ránHSK 3
nature; natural; naturally
- 自由zì yóuHSK 2
freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
- 自我zì wǒHSK 6
self-; ego (psychology)
- 自从zì cóngHSK 3
since (a time); ever since
- 亲自qīn zìHSK 3
personally; in person; oneself
- 自动zì dòngHSK 3
automatic; voluntarily
- 自信zì xìnHSK 4
to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence
- 自杀zì shāHSK 5
to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide
- 各自gè zìHSK 3
each; respective; apiece
- 自行车zì xíng chēHSK 2
bicycle; bike
- 自身zì shēnHSK 3
itself; oneself; one's own
- 独自dú zìHSK 4
alone
- 自豪zì háoHSK 5
proud (of one's achievements etc)
- 自愿zì yuànHSK 5
voluntary
- 自私zì sīHSK 7
selfish; selfishness
- 自称zì chēngHSK 7
to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title
- 出自chū zìHSK 7
to come from
- 自主zì zhǔHSK 3
independent; to act for oneself; autonomous
- 自行zì xíngHSK 7
voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
- 擅自shàn zìHSK 7
without permission
- 自在zì zaiHSK 6
comfortable; at ease
- 自觉zì juéHSK 3
conscious; aware; on one's own initiative; conscientious