"Oneself" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself / one's own |   |
| 个人 | gè rén | individual / personal / oneself | |
| 本人 | běn rén | I / me / myself / oneself / yourself / himself / herself / the person concerned | |
| 亲自 | qīn zì | personally / in person / oneself | |
| 自身 | zì shēn | itself / oneself / one's own | |
| 暗自 | àn zì | inwardly / to oneself / secretly | |
| 自家 | zì jiā | oneself / one's own family | |
| 亲身 | qīn shēn | personal / oneself | |
| 方便 | fāng biàn | convenient / suitable / to facilitate / to make things easy / having money to spare / (euphemism) to relieve oneself | |
| 人家 | rén jia | other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") | |
| 投入 | tóu rù | to throw into / to put into / to throw oneself into / to participate in / to invest in / absorbed / engrossed | |
| 自行 | zì xíng | voluntary / autonomous / by oneself / self- | |
| 体验 | tǐ yàn | to experience for oneself | |
| 隐藏 | yǐn cáng | to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting) | |
| 美容 | měi róng | to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify | |
| 自主 | zì zhǔ | independent / to act for oneself / autonomous | |
| 自信 | zì xìn | to have confidence in oneself / self-confidence | |
| 单独 | dān dú | alone / by oneself / on one's own | |
| 自拍 | zì pāi | to take a picture or video of oneself / to take a selfie / selfie | |
| 锻炼 | duàn liàn | to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself | |
| 用力 | yòng lì | to exert oneself physically | |
| 自杀 | zì shā | to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide | |
| 向上 | xiàng shàng | upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress | |
| 得意 | dé yì | proud of oneself / pleased with oneself / complacent | |
| 摆脱 | bǎi tuō | to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself | |
| 一手 | yī shǒu | a skill / mastery of a trade / by oneself / without outside help | |
| 心想 | xīn xiǎng | to think to oneself / to think | |
| 为人 | wéi rén | to conduct oneself / behavior / conduct / personal character | |
| 报考 | bào kǎo | to enter oneself for an examination | |
| 脱离 | tuō lí | to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany) | |
| 认同 | rèn tóng | to approve of / to endorse / to acknowledge / to recognize / to identify oneself with | |
| 交代 | jiāo dài | to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions / to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain / to give an account / to brief / to confess / to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end | |
| 现身 | xiàn shēn | to show oneself / to appear / (of a deity) to appear in the flesh | |
| 使命 | shǐ mìng | mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling | |
| 处在 | chǔ zài | to be situated at / to find oneself at | |
| 做人 | zuò rén | to conduct oneself / to behave with integrity | |
| 走光 | zǒu guāng | to expose oneself / to be completely gone | |
| 见识 | jiàn shi | to gain first-hand knowledge of sth / to experience for oneself / knowledge / experience / insight | |
| 自称 | zì chēng | to call oneself / to claim to be / to profess / to claim a title | |
| 立足 | lì zú | to stand / to have a footing / to be established / to base oneself on | |
| 解脱 | jiě tuō | to untie / to free / to absolve of / to get free of / to extirpate oneself / (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries | |
| 自我介绍 | zì wǒ jiè shào | self-introduction / to introduce oneself | |
| 知己 | zhī jǐ | to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend | |
| 翻身 | fān shēn | to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes | |
| 较量 | jiào liàng | to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble | |
| 修行 | xiū xíng | to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism) / to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft | |
| 装扮 | zhuāng bàn | to decorate / to adorn / to dress up / to disguise oneself | |
| 忍耐 | rěn nài | to endure / to bear with / to exercise patience / to restrain oneself / patience / endurance | |
| 自言自语 | zì yán zì yǔ | to talk to oneself / to think aloud / to soliloquize | |
| 自认 | zì rèn | to believe (sth in relation to oneself) / to regard oneself as / to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself) / to resign oneself to | |
| 伪装 | wěi zhuāng | to pretend to be (asleep etc) / to disguise oneself as / pretense / disguise / (military) to camouflage / camouflage | |
| 表白 | biǎo bái | to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession | |
| 沉吟 | chén yín | to mutter to oneself irresolutely | |
| 身处 | shēn chǔ | in (some place) / to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc) / to find oneself in / placed in / surrounded by | |
| 不愧 | bù kuì | to be worthy of / to deserve to be called / to prove oneself to be | |
| 自卑 | zì bēi | to have low self-esteem / to abase oneself | |
| 游玩 | yóu wán | to amuse oneself / to have fun / to go sightseeing / to take a stroll | |
| 反省 | fǎn xǐng | to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul | |
| 担当 | dān dāng | to take upon oneself / to assume | |
| 沉迷 | chén mí | to be engrossed / to be absorbed with / to lose oneself in / to be addicted to | |
| 玩耍 | wán shuǎ | to play (as children do) / to amuse oneself | |
| 脱颖而出 | tuō yǐng ér chū | to reveal one's talent (idiom) / to rise above others / to distinguish oneself | |
| 冒充 | mào chōng | to feign / to pretend to be / to pass oneself off as | |
| 振奋 | zhèn fèn | to stir oneself up / to raise one's spirits / to inspire | |
| 入世 | rù shì | to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织[jia1 ru4 Shi4 jie4 Mao4 yi4 Zu3 zhi1]) | |
| 自理 | zì lǐ | to take care of oneself / to provide for oneself | |
| 玩乐 | wán lè | to play around / to disport oneself | |
| 告白 | gào bái | to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love | |
| 自责 | zì zé | to blame oneself | |
| 应变 | yìng biàn | to meet a contingency / to adapt oneself to changes | |
| 自慰 | zì wèi | to console oneself / to masturbate / onanism / masturbation | |
| 愧疚 | kuì jiù | to feel guilty / to feel ashamed of oneself / to be remorseful | |
| 切身 | qiè shēn | direct / concerning oneself / personal | |
| 卖淫 | mài yín | prostitution / to prostitute oneself | |
| 醒悟 | xǐng wù | to come to oneself / to come to realize / to come to see the truth / to wake up to reality | |
| 辩解 | biàn jiě | to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself | |
| 磨练 | mó liàn | to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance | |
| 投身 | tóu shēn | to throw oneself into sth | |
| 保重 | bǎo zhòng | to take care of oneself | |
| 游乐 | yóu lè | to amuse oneself / recreation | |
| 自立 | zì lì | independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself | |
| 喃喃自语 | nán nán zì yǔ | to mumble to oneself | |
| 自以为是 | zì yǐ wéi shì | to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated | |
| 宣泄 | xuān xiè | to drain (by leading off water) / to unburden oneself / to divulge / to leak a secret | |
| 分身 | fēn shēn | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
| 纵身 | zòng shēn | to leap / to spring / to throw oneself | |
| 献身 | xiàn shēn | to commit one's energy to / to devote oneself to / to sacrifice one's life for / (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to | |
| 甘心 | gān xīn | to be willing to / to resign oneself to | |
| 取暖 | qǔ nuǎn | to warm oneself (by a fire etc) | |
| 结盟 | jié méng | to form an alliance / to ally oneself with / allied with / aligned / to bond with | |
| 攀登 | pān dēng | to climb / to pull oneself up / to clamber / to scale / fig. to forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger | |
| 置身 | zhì shēn | to place oneself / to stay | |
| 埋头 | mái tóu | to immerse oneself in / engrossed in sth / to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain) / countersunk (of screws, rivets etc) | |
| 上进 | shàng jìn | to make progress / to do better / fig. ambitious to improve oneself / to move forwards | |
| 脱身 | tuō shēn | to get away / to escape (from obligations) / to free oneself / to disengage | |
| 自救 | zì jiù | to get oneself out of trouble | |
| 成才 | chéng cái | to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect | |
| 自选 | zì xuǎn | to choose by oneself / free to choose / optional / self-service | |
| 不力 | bù lì | not to do one's best / not to exert oneself | |
| 作对 | zuò duì | to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair | |
