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freedom; liberty / free; unrestricted / CL: 種|种
HSK 2
oneself / one's own
HSK 2
bicycle; bike / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 2
automatic / voluntarily
HSK 3
to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself) / responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others
HSK 3
nature / natural / naturally
HSK 3
since (a time) / ever since
HSK 3
itself / oneself / one's own
HSK 3
independent / to act for oneself / autonomous
HSK 3
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  *自* | 自* | *自
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course
HSK 4
to have confidence in oneself / self-confidence
HSK 4
to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide
HSK 5
voluntary
HSK 5
proud (of one's achievements etc)
HSK 5
self-study / to study on one's own
HSK 6
comfortable; at ease
HSK 6
running water; tap water
HSK 6
self- / ego (psychology)
HSK 6
(idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
HSK 6
free and easy (idiom); carefree / leisurely
HSK 7-9
to take care of oneself / to provide for oneself
HSK 7-9
independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself
HSK 7-9
selfish / selfishness
HSK 7-9
self-service
HSK 7-9
spontaneous
HSK 7-9
to have low self-esteem / to abase oneself
HSK 7-9
conceited / to take responsibility
HSK 7-9
involuntary / automatically
HSK 7-9
self-confidence
HSK 7-9
voluntary / autonomous / by oneself / self-
HSK 7-9
at one's own expense / self-funded
HSK 7-9
nature / the natural world
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
unobstructed / unconstrained / smoothly / with ease / freely
HSK 7-9
self-respect / self-esteem / ego
HSK 7-9
to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated
HSK 7-9
to blame oneself
HSK 7-9
self-respect / self-esteem / ego / pride
HSK 7-9
to defend oneself / self-defense
HSK 7-9
everything for self and selfish profit (idiom); with no regard for others / selfish / mercenary
HSK 7-9
to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent
HSK 7-9
from start to finish (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to strive unremittingly / self-improvement
HSK 7-9
to call oneself / to claim to be / to profess / to claim a title
HSK 7-9
automated / automatically regulated / to control oneself / self-control
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
logically consistent / to make sense
to study outside of class time (reviewing one's lessons) / to study in one's free time / individual study
autonomy
responsible for its profit and losses (of organization) / financially autonomous / personal financial responsibility
to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor / (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself
to volunteer for / to offer to undertake
self-made / improvised / homemade / handmade
buffet / self-service meal
to automate
to console oneself / to masturbate / onanism / masturbation
self-criticism
self-discipline / self-regulation / autonomy (ethics) / autonomic (physiology)
to kill oneself / suicide
narcissism
to provide one's own... / own / self-provided / self-contained
to have (sth) for one's own use / (literary) to be opinionated
to strive for self-improvement
a self-made genius
oneself / one's own family
to choose by oneself / free to choose / optional / self-service
to believe (sth in relation to oneself) / to regard oneself as / to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself) / to resign oneself to
natural person (law) / see also 法人
to introduce oneself / originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
natural sciences
author's preface / autobiographical notes as introduction to a book
self-operated / to operate one's own business
autobiography
those on our side / ourselves / one's own people / one of us
to boast / to blow one's own horn
Zigong, prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province 四川省
(I, they etc) of course have (a plan, a way etc) / one's own (apartment, brand etc)
natural disaster
automatic control
self-respect / self-love / self-regard / regard for oneself / to cherish one's good name / to take good care of one's health
laissez-faire
to maintain self-control / self-control
automatic transmission
from the beginning / always / to come of one's own accord
dealer
to commit suicide by cutting one's own throat
mechanical pencil / propelling pencil
natural resource
(number of) degrees of freedom (physics and statistics)
to conduct oneself with dignity / to be dignified / deadweight
self-sufficiency / autarky
since ancient times
to give oneself up / to surrender (to the authorities)
(mahjong) to self-draw the winning tile / (slang) to play with oneself; to masturbate
to mock oneself / to laugh at oneself
self-actualization (psychology) / self-realization
self-employed / profession
(dialect) oneself; by oneself
each minding his own business
sb with whom one is on familiar terms / sb from the same place (same house, same town etc) / one of us

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