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self

self
自

If you bend your eye far enough, you can see your self.

From Lesson 170:Kanji 20·Japanese

Note

If you bend your eye far enough, you can see your self.

Breakdown of self

bend
丿 component
eye
目

Usages of self

breath
息

You use your breath to connect your self with your heart.

summer
夏

One part of your self wants it to be winter, the other part wants it to be summer.

自
self
neck
首

Your sense of self shatters when you find weeds growing from your neck.

自じ分ぶんjibun
oneself
nose
鼻

You want a new nose, so you get your self a rice paddy and grow twenty of them.

surface
面

The surface is just the enclosure of one self.

自じ転てん車しゃjitensha
bicycle
自じ動どう車しゃjidousha
car; automobile

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