自己

自己 zìjǐ in a sentence

Oneself (one's own - our)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 25 sentences

自己 (zìjǐ) means Oneself (one's own - our). Below are 24 of the 25 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

这件事我 自己 来。

Zhè jiàn shì wǒ zìjǐ lái.

I'll handle this myself.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 自己

自己 一个人去旅游了。

Tā zìjǐ yí gè rén qù lǚyóu le.

He went travelling on his own.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 自己

你要相信 自己

Nǐ yào xiāngxìn zìjǐ.

You have to believe in yourself.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 相信

别觉得 自己 笨。

Bié juéde zìjǐ bèn.

Don't think you are stupid.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

谢谢,我 自己 来就好。

Xièxie, wǒ zìjǐ lái jiù hǎo.

Thanks, I can manage by myself.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 谢谢

这件事你 自己 决定吧。

Zhè jiàn shì nǐ zìjǐ juédìng ba.

You decide this one yourself.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 决定

他热情地介绍了 自己

Tā rèqíng de jièshào le zìjǐ.

He introduced himself warmly.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 热情

他发现 自己 的护照不见了。

Tā fāxiàn zìjǐ de hùzhào bú jiàn le.

He discovered that his passport was missing.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 发现

每个国家都有 自己 的文化。

Měi gè guójiā dōu yǒu zìjǐ de wénhuà.

Every country has its own culture.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 文化

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

我不敢说 自己 爱上了跑步——说实话,我到现在也不太喜欢。

wǒ bùgǎn shuō zìjǐ àishàng le / liǎo / liào pǎobù—— shuō shíhuà, wǒ dào xiànzài yěbù tài xǐhuan.

I wouldn't claim to have fallen in love with running — honestly, I still don't much like it.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running

现在我给 自己 定了一条规矩:晚上十一点以后不看工作的消息。

xiànzài wǒ gěi zìjǐ dìngle yī tiáo guīju: wǎnshang shíyī diǎn yǐhòu bù kàn / kān gōngzuò de / dì xiāoxi.

Now I have one rule for myself: no work messages after eleven at night.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

可是最后一个问题让我愣住了:“你觉得 自己 最大的缺点是什么?”

kěshì zuìhòu yīgè wèntí ràng wǒ lèng zhùle:" nǐ juéde zìjǐ zuìdà de / dì quēdiǎn shì shénme?"

But the last question stopped me: "What do you think your biggest weakness is?"

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview

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

自己 appears in 25 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.

Questions about 自己

How is 自己 used in a sentence?

This page shows 25 sentences using 自己 (zìjǐ, "Oneself (one's own - our)"), 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.

Is 自己 an HSK word?

Yes — 自己 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

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The dictionary page for 自己 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.

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