自 zì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 自 — self
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
自费
zìfèi
to pay one’s own expenses; self-funded
Characters in this word
费 fèi
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 弗 not, negative 贝 sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 由于奖学金名额有限，他决定自费完成后两年的研究。 Yóuyú jiǎngxuéjīn míng'é yǒuxiàn, tā juédìng zìfèi wánchéng hòu liǎng nián de yánjiū. Because scholarship places were limited, he decided to fund the final two years of research himself.
- 去年他自费去国外学习了一年英语。 Qùnián tā zìfèi qù guówài xuéxíle yī nián Yīngyǔ. Last year he went abroad to study English for a year at his own expense.
- 导游说，自费项目游客可以自愿参加。 Dǎoyóu shuō, zìfèi xiàngmù yóukè kěyǐ zìyuàn cānjiā. The guide said that tourists could voluntarily join the activities paid at their own expense.