自 私

zìsī

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“Selfish” in Chinese is 自私 (zìsī).

Meaning

selfish
selfishness

Example

爱很自私。

Love is selfish.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zìHSK 26 strokesself; oneself sīHSK 57 strokespersonal

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