私 (sī)
private; personal; selfish
How 私 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 禾 — grain
- Traditional
- 私
- Simplified
- 私 (unchanged)
Components
- 禾 grain
- 厶 private
Common words using 私
- 私人 sīrén
- private; personal; interpersonal
- 自私 zìsī
- selfish; selfishness
- 隱私 yǐnsī
- secrets; private business; privacy
- 無私 wúsī
- selfless; unselfish; disinterested
- 私下 sīxià
- in private
- 私事 sīshì
- personal matters
- 私募 sīmù
- private placement (investing)
- 私吞 sītūn
- to misappropriate (public funds etc); to embezzle
- 私奔 sībēn
- to elope
- 私家 sījiā
- private; privately owned or managed
- 私家車 sījiāchē
- private car
- 私密 sīmì
- private; secret; intimate
私 in a sentence
做人不能太自私，要多為別人著想。
Zuòrén bùnéng tài zìsī, yào duō wèi biérén zhuóxiǎng.
“One shouldn't be too selfish; think more of others.”
How common is 私?
私 is the 1,021st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.5% of all running text.
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