私自

私自 in English

sī zì adverb: private / personal / secretly / without explicit approval

Character breakdown

私 sī personal
自 zì (bound form) self

Stroke order

Le caractère 私 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 私

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 自 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

私

Bronze script 戰國晚期.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

他只不过是个自私自利的人。

He is nothing more than an egoist.
他是个极其自私自利的人。

He is a lump of selfishness.

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