| | (bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course | HSK 4 |
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| | accomplishment / training / self-cultivation | HSK 5 |
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| | military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种 | HSK 3 |
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| | an individual / self-employed individual; small business operator (abbr. for 個體戶|个体户) | HSK 4 |
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| | self-study / to study on one's own | HSK 6 |
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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | HSK 1 |
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| | reality; actuality / real; actual / realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested | HSK 3 |
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| | to have confidence in oneself / self-confidence | HSK 4 |
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| | the self; oneself; self- / (psychology) ego | HSK 6 |
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| | scheduled evening self-study period; evening study hall | |
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| | (slang) Chinese people; we Chinese (often self-referential, ironic); China; the Chinese side | |
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| | early-morning self-study session (before regular classes); to attend such a session | |
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| | without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age | |
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| | to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc) / (computing) to enable (a feature) / (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate / to open (sth that has been sealed) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers) | |
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| | (slang) (often used self-deprecatingly) factory worker | |
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| | regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be on good terms / to be close friends / striving for self-improvement | HSK 6 |
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| | to restrain / to control / restraint / self-control | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in the right and self-confident (idiom); bold and confident with justice on one's side / to have the courage of one's convictions / just and forceful | HSK 7-9 |
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| | modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks | HSK 6 |
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| | self-determination | |
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| | independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination / to act independently / to maintain control over one's own affairs | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to indulge / to pamper / to connive at / permissive / indulgent / self-indulgent / unrestrained / undisciplined / uncultured / boorish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a self-made genius | |
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| | automated / automatically regulated / to control oneself / self-control | |
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| | extremely / unworthy (self-deprecatory term) | |
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| | ambition; desire for self-improvement | |
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| | self-employed / a private firm (PRC usage) | |
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| | (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly) | |
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| | everything for self and selfish profit (idiom); with no regard for others / selfish / mercenary | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (personal) accomplishment / attainment in self-cultivation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance | |
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| | independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) it goes without saying; it is self-evident | |
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| | self-confidence | HSK 7-9 |
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| | self-respect / self-esteem / ego / pride | HSK 7-9 |
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| | superstore – a hybrid retail format combining department store 商場|商场 (branded goods) and supermarket 超市 (self-service groceries) | |
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| | someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) | |
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| | Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China | |
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| | to examine or inspect / self-criticism / review | HSK 7-9 |
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| | self-evident truth / (math.) axiom | |
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| | autonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minorities (five in total: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Tibet) | |
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| | to have low self-esteem / to abase oneself | HSK 7-9 |
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| | self-media (news or other content published on independently-operated social media accounts) | |
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| | to destroy one's (reputation etc) / (of a device etc) to self-destruct | |
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| | not recognizing one's family (idiom); self-centered and not making any allowances for the needs of one's relatives | |
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| | (mahjong) to self-draw the winning tile / (slang) to play with oneself; to masturbate | |
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| | Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空 in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | self-balancing scooter / balance bike | |
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| | nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism | |
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| | self-respect / self-esteem / ego | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to defend oneself / self-defense | HSK 7-9 |
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| | humble words / self-deprecatory expression / to modestly decline | |
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| | persisting in evil brings about self-destruction (idiom) | |
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| | self-discipline / self-regulation / autonomy (ethics) / autonomic (physiology) | |
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| | self-sufficient / satisfied with oneself | |
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| | to strive unremittingly / self-improvement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | excessive self-defense (self-defense with excessive force) | |
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| | immeasurably self-satisfied | |
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| | Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949 | |
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| | restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations) | |
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| | self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom) | |
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| | (imperial China) rebel; traitor / (post-1949) enemy of the state; counter-revolutionary / (slang) dissident (used self-referentially, esp. in pro-democracy circles) | |
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| | the self / the individual | |
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| | calm / self-composed | |
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| | to be a different person / not to be one's usual self | |
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| | paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach | |
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| | social-media editor; page admin; creator of online content (often used by the writer as a self-referential persona) | |
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| | (slang) miserable; wretched; unfortunate (often humorous or self-deprecating) | |
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| | buffet / self-service meal | |
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| | self-taught / to learn without a teacher (idiom) | |
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| | to practice Taoism; to cultivate the true self through spiritual exercises | |
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| | the collective / the whole / (Buddhism) the greater self | |
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| | strong card / honor card (card games) / very popular or successful person / self-important | |
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| | to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people / altruism | |
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| | pride in sth / self-esteem | |
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| | to drive oneself somewhere / private vehicle / (Tw) self-driving car; autonomous car | |
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| | self-service | HSK 7-9 |
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| | emperor / god / Hong Xiuquan's self-proclaimed title / see also 洪秀全 | |
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| | vast / impressive / self-satisfied / immensely pleased with oneself | |
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| | id / the self | |
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| | the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within / to know best by personal experience | |
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| | to inspect oneself; to carry out a self-inspection | |
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| | voluntary / autonomous / by oneself / self- | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to prattle on self-importantly (idiom) | |
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| | to hesitate / (literary) to pace back and forth / (literary) self-satisfied | |
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| | self-criticism | |
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| | boldly; ostentatiously / poised; self-assured / Taiwan pr. [da4 mo2 da4 yang4] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at one's own expense / self-funded | HSK 7-9 |
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| | obstinate and self-opinionated (idiom) | |
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| | reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense | |
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| | (Tw) sanctimonious person / self-appointed moral arbiter | |
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| | to heat up by itself; (attributive) self-heating (esp. of meal kits heated with a water-activated pack) | |
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| | self-defense force / the Japanese armed forces | |
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| | your distinguished self / your majesty / sire | |
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| | (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) | |
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| | hypermarket / large warehouse-like self-service retail store | |
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| | self-operated / to operate one's own business | |
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