HanTrace

自私自利

zìsī-zìlì
HSK 7-9

Meaning

  • everything for self and selfish profit (idiom); with no regard for others
  • selfish
  • mercenary

Example

他是个极其自私自利的人。

He is a lump of selfishness.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zìHSK 26 strokesself; oneselfsīHSK 57 strokespersonallìHSK 27 strokessharp

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