Mnemonic comic for 自
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.
The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).
自 character breakdown
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]
This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
Characters with 自 as component
body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158
stench / smelly / to smell (bad) / repulsive / loathsome / terrible / bad / severely / ruthlessly / dud (ammunition)
breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
Words with 自
to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire
stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative
to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own / a sentimental attachment
Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan 雲南|云南
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Xinping Yi and Dai autonomous county in Yuxi 玉溪[Yu4 xi1], Yunnan
Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huai2 hua4], Hunan
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, abbr. 新[Xin1], capital Urumqi or Ürümqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2]
Xinbin Manchu autonomous county in Fushun 撫順|抚顺, Liaoning
Sanji or Changji Hui autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
Changjiang Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
to determine right and wrong based on public opinion (idiom) / Public opinion will judge what's right and wrong.
former Pu'er Hani and Yi autonomous county in Yunnan, renamed in 2007 Ning'er Hani and Yi autonomous county 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣|宁洱哈尼族彝族自治县, capital Pu'er city 普洱市
Jingning Shezu autonomous county in Lishui 麗水|丽水[Li2 shui3], Zhejiang
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
(of a warlord etc) to assemble one's personal army, thereby presenting a challenge to the central government