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自身 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • own adj Belonging to a particular person; used to stress possession.
  • self noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.
  • yourself pronoun Refers back to the person being spoken to, when they are both the doer and the receiver of an action.

Senses

自身 is used for these senses in English:

  • on one's own Unaided; without assistance or help from others.
  • oneself A person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself.
  • own Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  • self An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  • yourself (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).

own — full definition

  1. adj Belonging to a particular person; used to stress possession.
  2. verb To have legal possession of something.
  3. verb To admit or accept that something is true, often about yourself.

self — full definition

  1. noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.
  2. pron Used informally in place of "myself," "himself," "herself," etc., especially in casual notes or business shorthand.

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