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自言自语

zì yán zì yǔ

HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word Traditional 自言自語

自言自语 (zì yán zì yǔ) means "to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 自言自语 means

1. idiomto talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize

The characters in 自言自语

• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 言yánwords; speech; to say
• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 汤姆在自言自语。
  Tom is talking to himself.

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