self

Builds 77 distinct compound words — ranked #29 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ジ・シ
訓 kun: みずか.ら

Oneself, and from there 'automatic' — a thing doing it by itself. 自分 oneself, 自動車 a car, 自由 freedom.

The ten most common compounds built on 自. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

77compounds built

3,562times those words occur

#44by productivity alone

#34by how often it turns up

Where 自 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 自. Each one opens its own map.

分divide; minute; understand自分、自分自身#19 不un-, not不自由#36 車vehicle; wheel自転車、自動車#43 動move自動車#56 然so; -ly自然#96

Words built on 自

自分じぶん2,023 uses

自転車じてんしゃ266 uses

自慢じまん138 uses

自由じゆう136 uses

自動車じどうしゃ128 uses

自然しぜん82 uses

自殺じさつ65 uses

自身じしん59 uses

自らみずから59 uses

自分自身56 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.