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to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
HSK 7-9
without the freedom to act independently (idiom); involuntary / not of one's own volition / in spite of oneself
HSK 7-9
harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of others
HSK 7-9
oneself
you can't always do as you like / one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049
twenty-sixth year F2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2009 or 2069
love others as self
oneself / one's own
to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
egoism
to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom)
each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout
those on our side / ourselves / one's own people / one of us
everyone gives their own view
know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
an individual
a matter of no concern to oneself (idiom)
to be strict with oneself
there's no place like home (idiom)
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down
to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people / altruism
to consider sb as close friend (idiom); to take into one's confidence
our side / one's own (side etc)
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self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
(idiom) to illegally take possession of; to appropriate
dissident / alien / outsider / non-self / others
(coll.) (Tw) to get sacked / to be fired
to persist in one's views
forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1969 or 2029
intimate / private saving of family members
Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛
intimate / private saving of family members
know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
to seek the cause in oneself rather than sb else
to abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people / altruism
to blot out one's conscience
thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019
each sticks to his own view (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
to be content with one's lot (idiom) / to know one's place
self-restraint / discipline / selflessness
knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
personal profit / to benefit oneself
to wipe out dissenters / to exterminate those who disagree
to give up one's private interests for the public good (idiom); to behave altruistically / selfless and public spirited
to exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)
fifty-sixth year F8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1979 or 2039
if you want sth done well, do it yourself (idiom)
self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom); selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059
hexose (CH2O)6, monosaccharide with six carbon atoms, such as glucose 葡萄糖
one's own viewpoint
close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door / close in spirit although far away
to be oneself
close female friend / confidante
Help others, and others may help you (idiom).
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
to appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)
to be strict with oneself (idiom) / to demand a lot of oneself
to be severe with oneself and lenient with others (idiom)
self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom); selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
Kong Yiji, protagonist of short story by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
hepatitis F
What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects) / Do as you would be done by. / Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
selfless / self-sacrifice (to help others) / self-renunciation / altruism
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
to make it one's business / to take upon oneself to
to do (sth) oneself / to help oneself to
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.
close male friend / confidant
to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
to regard sb as one's own child
private saved money of close family members


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