WordTaiwan frequency #29,989
自知之明
ㄗˋ ㄓ ㄓ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
“Clear understanding of one's own abilities, strengths, and weaknesses; accurate self-knowledge; proper self-awareness.”
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自
ㄗˋ
Self; oneself; private; personal; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course; surname.
知
ㄓ
To know; to understand; to be aware of; to recognize; to distinguish; to associate with; to entertain or treat; knowledge or learning.
之
ㄓ
Possessive particle, similar to 的; pronoun for him, her, it, them; verb meaning to go; preposition indicating location or relation.
明
ㄇㄧㄥˊ
bright; light; clear; to understand; to make clear; to shine; public; the Ming Dynasty.
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Words sharing these characters
Vocabulary built from the same characters — most common first
- 自己ㄗˋ ㄐㄧˇoneself; one's own; (Beijing dialect) intimate; close (of relationships)
- 知道ㄓ ㄉㄠˋto know; to be aware of; to understand; to realize
- 之後ㄓ ㄏㄡˋafter; afterwards; since then; later; from that time on.
- 之間ㄓ ㄐㄧㄢbetween; among; amid; used after nouns or certain bisyllabic words to indicate a short period of time
- 自然ㄗˋ ㄖㄢˊnature; the physical world and its phenomena; natural; not artificial or forced; naturally; of course; certainly
- 之前ㄓ ㄑㄧㄢˊbefore; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand; earlier than a given time.
- 自由ㄗˋ ㄧㄡˊfreedom; liberty; the ability to act according to one's own will without external constraint; a right protected by law or constitution.
- 來自ㄌㄞˊ ㄗˋto come from (a place); originating from; (in email headers) From:
- 自我ㄗˋ ㄨㄛˇthe self; oneself; self-; (psychology) ego; the self-centered concept; in philosophy, the unchanging spiritual self; in Freudian theory, the part of the personality mediating between the id and reality
- 說明ㄕㄨㄛ ㄇㄧㄥˊto explain; to illustrate; to show; explanation; directions; caption
- 知識ㄓ ㄕˋknowledge; learning; intellectual understanding; (in classical usage) a friend or acquaintance; (Buddhist) a spiritual companion
- 明顯ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄢˇobvious; clear; evident; plain to see; unmistakable; clearly apparent