自知 zìzhī
zìzhī
verb
to know for oneself
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '自知')
Contained in
- 自知之明 knowing oneself; self-knowledge
- 如人饮水，冷暖自知(如人飲水，冷暖自知) the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within
- 自知理亏(自知理虧) to know that one is in the wrong
- 知人者智，自知者明 those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷二百十三 表第四 宰輔四 Volume 213 Tables 4: Chancellors 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 14
- 卷二百十四 表第五 宰輔五 Volume 214 Tables 5: Chancellors 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 12
- 卷二百十二 表第三 宰輔三 Volume 212 Tables 3: Chancellors 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 8
- 卷二百一十 表第一 宰輔一 Volume 210 Tables 1: Chancellors 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
- 卷九十七下 外戚傳 Volume 97a: The Empresses and Imperial Affines 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 7
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 7
- 卷二十八 魏書二十八 王毌丘諸葛鄧鍾傳 Volume 28: Book of Wei 28 - Biographies of Wang, Guanqiu, Zhuge, Deng and Zhong Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 6
- 卷二百十一 表第二 宰輔二 Volume 211 Tables 2: Chancellors 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
- 卷七十五 眭兩夏侯京翼李傳 Volume 75: Sui, two Xiahous, Jing, Ji and Li Book of Han 漢書 — count: 5
- 卷六十八 霍光金日磾傳 Volume 68: Huo Guang and Jin Midi Book of Han 漢書 — count: 4
Collocations
- 臣自知 (臣自知) 臣自知不足以處其上 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二 臣術 Chapter 2: The Art of the Statesman — count: 5
- 自知罪 (自知罪) 自知罪多 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十三 景十三王傳 Volume 53: The thirteen sons of Emperor Jing — count: 4
- 自知罪恶 (自知罪惡) 自知罪惡暴陳 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十四 翟方進傳 Volume 84: Zhai Fangjin — count: 3
- 自知不足 (自知不足) 臣自知不足以處其上 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二 臣術 Chapter 2: The Art of the Statesman — count: 3
- 侯自知 (侯自知) 紀侯自知力不加 — Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露, 卷三 玉英第四 精華第五 Scroll 3 — count: 3
- 自知负 (自知負) 自知負漢 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十 傅常鄭甘陳段傳 Volume 70: Fu, Chang, Zheng, Gan, Chen and Duan — count: 2
- 自知附 (自知附) 豈自知附驥之尾 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《樊酈滕灌列傳》 Biographies of Fan, Li, Teng and Guan — count: 2
- 陛下自知 (陛下自知) 欲使陛下自知也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二十 反質 Chapter 20: Returning to Simplicity — count: 2
- 自知见 (自知見) 自知見賣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《范睢蔡澤列傳》 Biographies of Fan Sui and Cai Ze — count: 2
- 自知智 (自知智) 龐涓自知智窮兵敗 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孫子吳起列傳》 Biographies of Sun Tzu and Wu Qi — count: 2