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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
自制
to maintain self-control
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to maintain self-control
02
self-control
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 自制 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自制 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The campers made their own bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and seeds. They hung them from trees with fishing line.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 自制.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自制.
Directly before
- 种子自制1
- 乘著自制1
- 我们自制1
Directly after
- 自制的2
- 自制酸奶1
- 自制了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 自制
What does 自制 mean in Chinese?
自制 (zìzhì) means to maintain self-control.
How do you pronounce 自制?
自制 is pronounced zìzhì.
Is 自制 an HSK word?
自制 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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