zi Chinese words in HSK vocabulary

zì

• letter
• symbol
• character
• word
• courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

zì jǐ

• self
• (reflexive pronoun)
• own
• oneself
• one's own

zǐ

• son
• child
• seed
• egg
• small thing
• 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat

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English dictionary gloss under review.

zì diǎn

• dictionary
• character dictionary
• (coll.) dictionary

zì xíng chē

• bicycle
• bike
• bicycle; bike

zī liào

• material
• resources
• data
• information
• profile (Internet)

zǐ xì

• careful
• attentive
• cautious
• careful; attentive; cautious
• to be careful; to look out
• (dialect) thrifty; frugal

zì

• (bound form) self; oneself
• from; since
• naturally; as a matter of course

zì rán

• nature
• natural
• naturally

zì xí

• to study outside of class time (reviewing one's lessons)
• to study in one's free time
• individual study

zì xìn

• confidence
• self-confidence
• to have confidence in oneself

zì xué

• self-study
• to study on one's own

zī xún

• to consult
• to seek advice
• consultation
• (sales) inquiry (formal)
• to inquire; to consult; to seek advice from

zī shì

• posture
• position

zī gé

• qualifications
• seniority

zī jīn

• funds
• funding
• capital
• funds; capital

zī yuán

• natural resource (such as water or minerals)
• resource (such as manpower or tourism)

zǐ nǚ

• children; sons and daughters

zǐ

• purple
• violet
• amethyst
• Lithospermum erythrorhizon (flowering plant whose root provides red purple dye)
• Japanese: murasaki

zì mǔ

• letter (of the alphabet)

zì mù

• caption
• subtitle
• subtitles; captions (of a movie etc)

zì cóng

• since (a time)
• ever since

zì dòng

• automatic
• voluntarily

zì háo

• (feel a sense of) pride
• to be proud of sth (in a good way)
• proud (of one's achievements etc)

zì jué

• conscious
• aware
• on one's own initiative
• conscientious
• to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself)
• responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others

zì shēn

• itself
• oneself
• one's own

zì sī

• selfish
• selfishness

zì yóu

• freedom
• free
• liberty
• freedom; liberty
• free; unrestricted

zì yuàn

• voluntary

zī tài

• attitude
• posture
• stance

zī běn

• capital (as in capitalism)
• capital (economics)

zī chǎn

• property
• assets

zī shēn

• senior (in terms of depth of accumulated experience)
• deeply qualified
• veteran (journalist etc)
• senior
• highly experienced

zī zhù

• to subsidize
• to provide financial aid
• subsidy

zī rùn

• moist
• humid
• to moisten
• to provide moisture
• comfortably off

zī wèi

• taste
• flavor
• feeling

zǐ dàn

• bullet

zì bēi

• feeling inferior
• self-abased
• to have low self-esteem
• to abase oneself

zì fā

• spontaneous

zì lái shuǐ

• running water; tap water

zì lì gēng shēng

• regeneration through one's own effort (idiom)
• self-reliance

zì lǜ

• self-discipline
• self-regulation
• autonomy (ethics)
• autonomic (physiology)

zì mǎn

• complacent
• self-satisfied

zì shā

• to kill oneself
• to commit suicide
• to attempt suicide

zì wǒ

• self-
• ego (psychology)

zì yán zì yǔ

• (idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize

zì zhǔ

• to act for oneself
• autonomous
• to act independently; to be autonomous; to be in control of one's own affairs

zì zhù

• self-service

zī běn zhǔ yì

• capitalism

zī lì

• qualifications
• experience
• seniority

zī xùn

• information

zī zhì

• aptitude
• natural endowments

zī shēng

• to breed
• to flourish
• to cause
• to provoke
• to create

zǐ dì

• child
• the younger generation

zǐ sūn

• offspring
• posterity

zǐ

• seeds

zì jì

• handwriting

zì tǐ

• calligraphic style
• typeface
• font

zì yǎn

• wording

zì chēng

• to call oneself
• to claim to be
• to profess
• to claim a title

zì fèi

• at one's own expense
• self-funded

zì fù

• conceited
• to take responsibility

zì lǐ

• to take care of oneself
• to provide for oneself

zì lì

• independent
• self-reliant
• self-sustaining
• to stand on one's own feet
• to support oneself

zì qiáng bù xī

• to strive unremittingly
• self-improvement

zì rán ér rán

• involuntary
• automatically

zì rán jiè

• nature
• the natural world

zì rú

• unobstructed
• unconstrained
• smoothly
• with ease
• freely

zì shǐ zhì zhōng

• from start to finish (idiom)

zì shǒu

• to give oneself up
• to surrender (to the authorities)

zì wèi

• to defend oneself
• self-defense

zì xiāng máo dùn

• to contradict oneself
• self-contradictory
• inconsistent

zì xíng

• voluntary
• autonomous
• by oneself
• self-

zì yǐ wéi shì

• to believe oneself infallible (idiom)
• to be opinionated

zì zai

• comfortable; at ease

zì zé

• to blame oneself

zì zhì qū

• autonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minorities (five in total: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Tibet)

zì zūn

• self-respect
• self-esteem
• ego
• pride