己 (jǐ) means Oneself. Below are 24 of the 168 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他很会约束自 己 。
Tā hěn huì yuēshù zìjǐ.
He is good at restraining himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 约束
他彻底改变了自 己 。
Tā chèdǐ gǎibiàn le zìjǐ.
He completely changed himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 彻底
他非要自 己 去不可。
Tā fēi yào zìjǐ qù bùkě.
He simply insists on going himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 非
不要轻易否定自 己 。
Bùyào qīngyì fǒudìng zìjǐ.
Do not dismiss yourself so readily.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 否定
她恨自 己 没早点说。
Tā hèn zìjǐ méi zǎodiǎn shuō.
She hates herself for not speaking sooner.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 恨
老师自 己 编了教材。
Lǎoshī zìjǐ biān le jiàocái.
The teacher compiled the materials himself.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教材
成功要靠自 己 努力。
Chénggōng yào kào zìjǐ nǔlì.
Success depends on your own effort.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 靠
Reading these is one thing; producing 己 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
说实话，我自 己 也这么想。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ zìjǐ yě zhème xiǎng.
To be honest, I thought the same.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我以为自 己 可以坚持下去。
wǒ yǐwéi zìjǐ kěyǐ jiānchí xiàqu.
I thought I could keep it up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
我总觉得自 己 在浪费时间。
wǒ zǒng juéde zìjǐ zài làngfèi shíjiān.
I kept feeling I was wasting time.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
我站在路边喘气，觉得自 己 特别可笑。
wǒ zhàn zài lùbiān chuǎn qì, juéde zìjǐ tèbié kěxiào.
I stood by the road getting my breath back, feeling faintly ridiculous.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我用电脑给自 己 打电话，可是没有人接。
wǒ yòng diànnǎo gěi zìjǐ dǎdiànhuà, kěshì méiyǒu rén jiē.
I rang my own number from the computer, but nobody picked up.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
后来我发现，自 己 想出来的东西记得最久。
hòulái wǒ fāxiàn, zìjǐ xiǎngchū lái de / dì dōngxī jìde zuì jiǔ.
Later I realised that what you work out yourself is what you remember longest.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
可是我喜欢那个每天都能说到做到的自 己 。
kěshì wǒ xǐhuan nèigè měitiān dōu néng shuōdào zuòdào de / dì zìjǐ.
But I do like the version of me who does what he says he'll do, every day.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
走出大楼的时候，我以为自 己 肯定没有机会了。
zǒu chū dà lóu de / dì shíhou, wǒ yǐwéi zìjǐ kěndìng méiyǒu jīhuì le / liǎo / liào.
Walking out of the building, I was sure I'd blown it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
我在同一条街上走了三遍，才发现自 己 一直在转圈。
wǒ zài tóngyī tiáo jiēshàng zǒule sān biàn, cái fāxiàn zìjǐ yìzhí zài zhuǎn / zhuàn juān.
I'd walked down the same street three times before I realised I was going in circles.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
那一刻我明白了，其实我一直都可以，只是不相信自 己 。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ míngbaile, qíshí wǒ yìzhí dōu kěyǐ, zhǐshì bù xiāngxìn zìjǐ.
In that moment I understood that I'd always been able to — I just hadn't believed it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
看着火车开走的时候，我才发现自 己 一直没说“再见”。
kànzhe huǒchē kāi zǒu de / dì shíhou, wǒ cái fāxiàn zìjǐ yìzhí méi shuō" zàijiàn".
Watching the train pull out, I realised I'd never actually said goodbye.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
From the grammar library
请你介绍介绍自 己 。
Qǐng nǐ jièshào jièshào zìjǐ.
Please tell us a bit about yourself.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Verb reduplication — 看看, 试试
己 appears in 168 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 己
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 己
How is 己 used in a sentence?
This page shows 168 sentences using 己 (jǐ, "Oneself"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 己 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 己 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 己?
The dictionary page for 己 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
Keep going
Read the full entry for 己, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.
Another word
Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.