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自己

zì jǐ

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word

自己 (zì jǐ) means "oneself". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 自己 means

1. oneself; (attributive) one's own

The characters in 自己

• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 己jǐself; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干

Example sentences

• 自己做！
  Do it yourself!
• 忠于自己。
  Be true to yourself.
• 照顾好自己。
  Take care.
• 我想自己做。
  I want to do it myself.
• 我自己做的。
  I made it myself.
• 自己当心啊。
  Watch yourself.

Words starting with 自己

• 自己人zì jǐ rénthose on our side; ourselves; one's own people
• 自己动手zì jǐ dòng shǒuto do (sth) oneself; to help oneself to

Words containing 自己

• 做自己zuò zì jǐto be oneself
• 威福自己wēi fú zì jǐto exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)
• 回家吃自己huí jiā chī zì jǐ(colloquial; Taiwan) to get sacked; to be fired
• 金窝银窝不如自己的狗窝jīn wō yín wō bù rú zì jǐ de gǒu wōthere's no place like home (idiom)
• 搬石头砸自己的脚bān shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎoto move a stone and stub one's toe; to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
• 搬起石头砸自己的脚bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎoto crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock…
• 与人方便，自己方便yǔ rén fāng biàn , zì jǐ fāng biànHelp others, and others may help you (idiom).

Sounds the same

Read zì jǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 自给self-reliant

Where 自己 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Function Words & Prepositions (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zì jǐ correctly.
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