HSK 5 · Adjectives

自觉 zìjué “conscious” in Chinese

Traditional 自覺

What 自觉 means

  1. conscious
  2. aware
  3. to realise
  4. to be aware of
  5. to feel that
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself)
  • responsible
  • predisposed to do the right thing
  • considerate of others

How to say 自觉

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale自zì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale觉jué2nd tone, rising

自觉 in a sentence

  1. 孩子们很自觉，每天按时做作业。

    Háizimen hěn zìjué, měitiān ànshí zuò zuòyè.

    The children are very self-disciplined and do their homework on time every day.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 请大家自觉排队。

    Qǐng dàjiā zìjué páiduì.

    Please queue up without being asked.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 自觉 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 自 (zì) drawn as one shape
自zìself; oneself

自 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a nose. The usual explanation is that people point to their nose to mean “me”, so it came to mean “self”.

The character 觉 (jué) with each of its parts in a different colour
觉juéto feel
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎoSound part
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 见to see · jiànMeaning part

见 hints at the meaning (to see); ⺍ (xiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with jué.

How to write 自觉

自 6 strokes · 觉 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

自觉 (zìjué) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 自觉 (zìjué). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 自觉

Words with 自

自己zìjǐ · oneself自行车zìxíngchē · bike自zì · from来自láizì · to come from (a place)自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself自然zìrán · nature自私zìsī · selfish自由zìyóu · freedom自愿zìyuàn · voluntary自豪zìháo · proud (of an achievement)

Words with 觉

睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep觉得juéde · to feel感觉gǎnjué · feeling嗅觉xiùjué · sense of smell知觉zhījué · perception发觉fājué · to discover觉悟juéwù · awareness觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken

More words: Adjectives

重大zhòngdà · major周到zhōudào · thoughtful主观zhǔguān · subjective紫zǐ · purple自私zìsī · selfish自由zìyóu · freedom自愿zìyuàn · voluntary综合zōnghé · comprehensive

FAQs

自觉 (zìjué) means “conscious” or “aware”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zìjué: zì with a 4th tone, then jué with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 自觉 is written 自覺. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zijue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 自觉 from the suggestions. Typing zijue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
自觉 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.