Do not loathe yourself.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
自怨自艾
to be full of remorse
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be full of remorse
02
to repent and redress one's errors
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 自怨自艾 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自怨自艾 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I hate myself for my mistakes.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 自怨自艾.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自怨自艾.
Directly before
- 不要自怨自艾1
- 错误自怨自艾1
- 是自怨自艾1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 自怨自艾
What does 自怨自艾 mean in Chinese?
自怨自艾 (zìyuànzìyì) means to be full of remorse.
How do you pronounce 自怨自艾?
自怨自艾 is pronounced zìyuànzìyì.
Is 自怨自艾 an HSK word?
自怨自艾 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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