自

self; from

No. 50 most used · 0.22% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 445.

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A drawing of a nose: in China you point to your nose to say "me".

Words

• 自己

  zì jǐ

  oneself; (attributive) one's own
• 自由

  zì yóu

  freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
• 来自

  lái zì

  to come from (a place); From: (in email header)
• 自杀

  zì shā

  to kill oneself; to commit suicide; to attempt suicide
• 自然

  zì rán

  nature; natural; naturally
• 自从

  zì cóng

  since (a time); ever since

Sentences

• 从此以后我自由了。

  cóng cǐ yǐ hòu wǒ zì yóu le

  Now I am free.
• 他对自己很有自信。

  tā duì zì jǐ hěn yǒu zì xìn

  He has great confidence in himself.
• 他有他自己的做法。

  tā yǒu tā zì jǐ de zuò fǎ

  He would have his own way.
• 你让我想起我自己。

  nǐ ràng wǒ xiǎng qǐ wǒ zì jǐ

  You remind me of myself.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.