自 zì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 自 — self
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
自然而然
zìrán'érrán
naturally; as a matter of course
Characters in this word
然 rán
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 灬 — fire
- Made of
- 肰 dog meat 灬 fire
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
而 ér
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 而 — and, and then, and yet
Example phrases
- 当制度真正体现公平时，公众的信任就会自然而然地恢复。 Dāng zhìdù zhēnzhèng tǐxiàn gōngpíng shí, gōngzhòng de xìnrèn jiù huì zìrán'érrán de huīfù. When a system genuinely embodies fairness, public trust will naturally recover.
- 在这样的环境中长大，孩子们自然而然就学会了分享。 Zài zhèyàng de huánjìng zhōng zhǎngdà, háizimen zìrán'érrán jiù xuéhuìle fēnxiǎng. Growing up in such an environment, children naturally learn to share.
- 住得久了，我们自然而然地熟悉了这里的生活。 Zhù de jiǔle, wǒmen zìrán'érrán de shúxīle zhèlǐ de shēnghuó. After living here a long time, we became familiar with life here quite naturally.