Word details
자기
- Pronunciation
- 자기
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- intermediate
- Homonyms
- 3
himself; herself; ego
The person himself/herself.
Idioms
자기도 모르게
without even oneself knowing; unknowingly; ignorantly
Automatically while one is unconscious.
자기로 돌아오다
return to oneself
To regain one's senses and return to reality from deep thought.
자기를 잃어버리다
lose oneself
To be unable to properly understand one's situation or self.
lose oneself
To be unable to think in a normal manner.
Proverbs
자기 얼굴[낯]에 침 뱉기
spitting saliva on one's own face; cut off one's nose to spite one's face
An expression used to describe a situation where one's scheme to harm someone boomerangs and harms oneself.