己 jǐ

1. jǐ pronoun self
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In Literary Chinese this reflexive personal pronoun may be used in subject or object position (Guoyu '己' pronoun; Kroll 2015 '己' 1, p. 186; Mathews 1931 '己', p. 57; NCCED '己', p. 739; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 83; Unihan '己'; XHZD '己' 1, p. 315). For example, 其恕乎！己所不欲，勿施於人。 'Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' (Lunyu 17:24, trans. by Legge 1861)
2. jǐ noun sixth of 10 heavenly trunks
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Heavenly Stem 天干
   Notes: (Guoyu '己' n 1; Kroll 2015 '己' 1, p. 186; Mathews 1931 '己', p. 57; Unihan '己'; XHZD '己' 2, p. 315)
3. jǐ noun Kangxi radical 49
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '己' n 3)
4. jǐ pronoun her; him; it
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Third person pronoun (Kroll 2015 '己' 3, p. 186)
5. jǐ ordinal sixth
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As an ordinal number (Guoyu '己' n 2)

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• 舍己(捨己) selfless; self-sacrifice (to help others); self-renunciation; altruism
• 做自己 to be oneself
• 己所不欲 what you yourself do not desire
• 严以律己(嚴以律己) to be strict with oneself; to demand a lot of oneself
• 孔乙己 Kong Yiji, protagonist of short story by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
• 利己 to benefit oneself
• 身己 oneself ; body ; identity
• 占为己有(佔為己有) to appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)
• 表现自己(表現自己) to express oneself; to give an account of oneself; to project oneself; to show off
• 金窝银窝不如自己的狗窝(金窩銀窩不如自己的狗窩) there's no place like home
• 体己 personal savings ; intimate with ; intimate; private saving of family members
• 知彼知己 to know the enemy and know oneself
• 己丑 twenty-sixth year F2 of the 60 year cycle
• 坚持己意(堅持己意) stubbornly hold to one's own opinion
• 损人不利己(損人不利己) to harm others without benefiting oneself
• 自己 self
• 事不关己，高高挂起(事不關己，高高掛起) to feel unconcerned and let matters rest
• 各抒己见(各抒己見) everyone gives their own view
• 己己瞒心(己己瞞心) to blot out one's conscience
• 搬起石头砸自己的脚(搬起石頭砸自己的腳) to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy)
• 奉公克己(奉公剋己) self-restraint and devotion to public duties; selfless dedication
• 为己任(為己任) to make it one's business; to take upon oneself to
• 己未 fifty sixth year of the 60 year cycle
• 己巳 sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049
• 视同己出(視同己出) to regard as one's own child
• 走自己的路，让人家去说(走自己的路，讓人家去說) Go your own way, let others say what they like. (popular modern cliche) / Do it my way.
• 屈己从人(屈己從人) to bow oneself to be humble to others
• 克己奉公(剋己奉公) self-restraint and devotion to public duties; selfless dedication
• 酒逢知己千杯少 a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet
• 克己复礼(克己復禮) restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
• 瞒心昧己(瞞心昧己) to blot out one's conscience
• 舍己为人(捨己為人) to abandon self for others; to sacrifice one's own interest for other people
• 知彼知己，百战不殆(知彼知己，百戰不殆) knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles
• 事不关己(事不關己) a matter of no concern to oneself
• 切己 personal ; to be intimate
• 己独(己獨) only him
• 诛锄异己(誅鋤異己) to wipe out dissenters; to exterminate those who disagree
• 知己知彼，百战不殆(知己知彼，百戰不殆) know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated
• 异己(異己) a dissident; an alien; an outsider
• 己型肝炎 hepatitis F
• 知己 a close friend ; to know oneself
• 体己钱(體己錢) private saved money of close family members
• 私己 private; secretly
• 己酉 forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle
• 己亲(己親) one's relatives
• 虚己以听(虛己以聽) to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind
• 知己知彼 know yourself, know your enemy
• 爱己注意(愛己注意) egoism
• 威福自己 to exercise power arbitrarily
• 舍己就人(捨己就人) to give up one's own interests for other people

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