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Translation

zì = z + Ø4: self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.

The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).

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自 character breakdown

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]
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eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
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Characters with 自 as component

body / life / oneself / personally / one's morality and conduct / the main part of a structure or body / pregnant / classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset / Kangxi radical 158
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I or me / we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
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stench / smelly / to smell (bad) / repulsive / loathsome / terrible / bad / severely / ruthlessly / dud (ammunition)
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sense of smell / smell bad
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breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
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head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
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former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source
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surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara
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Words with 自

can't help; involuntarily (idiom)
self-evident; needing no explanation (idiom)
not take a proper measure of oneself / to overrate one's own abilities
(of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc) / to be discredited
Sandu Shuizu autonomous county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
to confess without being pressed / to make a confession without duress
not daring to act for oneself (idiom)
unable to control oneself / to be beside oneself
uneasy / ill at ease
unnatural / artificial
unaware / unconscious of sth
to overestimate one's capabilities
self-explanatory / self-evident (idiom)
to turn up without being invited / unsolicited
Sanjiang Dong autonomous county in Liuzhou 柳州[Liu3 zhou1], Guangxi
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[San1 zi4 Ai4 guo2 Jiao4 hui4], Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949

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