Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
自
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
私
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他好自私!
He's so selfish!
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她很烦人,而且很自私。
She's annoying and selfish.
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她确实很漂亮,但她很自私。
It is true that she is pretty, but she is selfish.
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自私不是我的本意。
I didn't mean to be selfish.