自己 zìjǐ
pronoun
self
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Concept: Personal Pronoun 人称代词
Notes: 自己 is a reflexive pronoun(Sun 2006, loc. 1832). For example, 没法再管束自己 '[He] had no way to control himself any longer.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 306)
Contained in
- 威福自己 to exercise power arbitrarily
- 做自己 to be oneself
- 表现自己(表現自己) to express oneself; to give an account of oneself; to project oneself; to show off
- 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)
- 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
- 与人方便，自己方便(與人方便，自己方便) Help others, and others may help you .
- 自己人 those on our side; ourselves; one's own people; one of us
- 回家吃自己 to get sacked; to be fired
- 自己动手(自己動手) to do oneself; to help oneself to
- 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.
- 搬石头砸自己的脚(搬石頭砸自己的腳) to move a stone and stub one's toe; to shoot oneself in the foot
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 109 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
- 第二回 Chapter 67 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
- 第二回 Chapter 20 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
- 第二回 Chapter 31 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 15
- 第二回 Chapter 90 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 65 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 89 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 91 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 19 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 69 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 13