CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

自问

zìwèn

to ask oneself; to search one's soul

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to ask oneself; to search one's soul

to reach a conclusion after weighing a matter

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 自问 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自问 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我自问她真正的意思是什麽。wǒ zì wèn tā zhēn zhèng de yì si shì shén mó。

I wonder what she really means.

美国，我们已经走过了一条漫漫长路。我们已经历了很多。但是我们仍有很多事情要做。因此今夜，请让我们自问--如果我们的孩子能够活到下个世纪；如果我的女儿有幸活得和安一样长，她们将会看到怎样的改变？我们将会取得什么样的进步。měi guó， wǒ men yǐ jīng zǒu guò le yī tiáo màn màn cháng lù。 wǒ men yǐ jīng lì le hěn duō。 dàn shì wǒ men réng yǒu hěn duō shì qíng yào zuò。 yīn cǐ jīn yè， qǐng ràng wǒ men zì wèn -- rú guǒ wǒ men de hái zi néng gòu huó dào xià gè shì jì； rú guǒ wǒ de nǚ ér yǒu xìng huó dé hé ān yī yàng zhǎng， tā men jiāng huì kàn dào zěn yàng de gǎi biàn？ wǒ men jiāng huì qǔ dé shén me yàng de jìn bù。

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves, if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

玛丽自问，汤姆真的爱她吗？mǎ lì zì wèn， tāng mǔ zhēn de ài tā ma？

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 自问.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自问.

Directly before

我们自问1
我自问1
玛丽自问1

Directly after

自问她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 自问

What does 自问 mean in Chinese?

自问 (zìwèn) means to ask oneself; to search one's soul.

How do you pronounce 自问?

自问 is pronounced zìwèn.

Is 自问 an HSK word?

自问 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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