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  zi6   jyutping
  zi4   pinyin
[1] self; private; personal [2] from [3] natural; naturally; a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 6
Level: 1
Radical: (#132)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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This word has been viewed 25436 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 22nd Jul 2009 02:17

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detail  laang5 nyun5 zi6 zi1  leng3 nuan3 zi4 zhi1 = self- awareness; lit. the person who drinks it knows best if its hot or cold (Zen proverb)
detail  zi6 seon3 zaang1   = padded insoles for height, shoe lift inserts
detail  go3 zi6   = each
detail  zi6 zoi6  zi4 zai5 = at ease; free, unrestrained, comfortable
detail  zi6 gei2/gei2*1  zi4 ji3 = oneself; self
detail  zi6 hang4 ce1  zi4 xing2 che1 = bicycle
detail  loi4 zi6  lai2 zi4 = to come from
detail  zi6 jin4  zi4 ran2 = nature; natural
detail  zi6 saat3  zi4 sha1 = to commit suicide
detail  si1 zi6  si1 zi4 = secretly; privately
See all 365 compounds (CantoDict reports 396 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 26 examples containing 自
detail audio 來自美國
I'm from the United States.
detail audio 自然
The more you do it, the more natural it will become.
detail 一種食物, 取自動物
Meat is a type of food, it comes from animals.
detail 阿媽今晚煮飯自己
Mum is not going to cook tongiht, so we/I have to have dinner on our/my own.
[Usually mother cooks at home every night. If she does not cook, it implies that she is out at night, so the entire family has to think about the dinner stuff.]
detail 牛奶出自乳牛身上
Cow's milk comes from the body of dairy cows
[Instead of saying "cow produces milk", it sounds more natural to say it the other way: "milk comes from cow"]
detail 小明成日自己
Siu Ming is always praising herself.
detail 一點自信
I have a lot of self-confidence about it.
[Lit. I toward this one point very self-confident.]
detail 個個學生擔心自己成績
Every student is worried about his grades.
[Reduplicated classifiers (like 個個 here) can be used as a subject, but not as an object. We cannot say, for instance, 通知個個 for "to tell everyone". ]
detail 自來水
I only drink water
detail audio 大廈自來水
This building has "self-arrived" ("running") water.
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: This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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