| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 自 | じ | self |
| 自称 | じしょう | self-styled; would-be; calling oneself |
| 自宅 | じたく | my house |
| 自由 | じゆう | freedom |
| 自然 | しぜん | nature |
| 自信 | じしん | self-confidence |
| 自己 | じこ | self; oneself |
| 自粛 | じしゅく | self control |
| 自主的 | じしゅてき | independent, autonomous |
| 自動 | じどう | automatic |
| 自動的 | じどうてき | automatically |
| 自立 | じりつ | independence |
| 自分で | じぶんで | by oneself |
| 自動ドア | じどうドア | an automatic door |
| 自治 | じち | self-government, autonomy |
| 自殺 | じさつ | suicide |
| 自習 | じしゅう | self-study |
| 自然科学 | しぜんかがく | natural science |
| 不自由 | ふじゆう | discomfort, disability, inconvenience, destitution |
| 自ら | みずから | for one's self, personally |
| 自衛 | じえい | self-defense |
| 自説 | じせつ | one's one view, opinion |
| 自動販売 | じどうはんばいき | a vending machine |
| 自身 | じしん | by oneself, personally |
| 自動車 | じどうしゃ | a car, an automobile |
| 自転車 | じてんしゃ | bicycle |
| 不自然 | ふしぜん | unnatural, artificial, affected, strained |
| 各自 | かくじ | individual, each |
| 悠悠自適の生活 | ゆうゆうじてきのせいかつ | life free from worldly cares |
| 泰然自若 | たいぜんじじゃく | having presence of mind, self-possessed, imperturbable, calm and self-possessed |
| 海上自衛隊 | かいじょうじえいたい | Maritime Self Defense Forces (Defence) |
| 漸近的自由 | ぜんきんてきじゆう | asymptotic freedom (physics) |
| 焼身自殺 | しょうしんじさつ | burning oneself to death, suicide by fire |
| 独自 | どくじ | original, peculiar, characteristic, proprietary |
| 肢体不自由児 | したいふじゆうじ | handicapped child |
| 自他 | じた | oneself and others; transitive and intransitive |
| 自伝 | じでん | autobiography |
| 自供 | じきょう | confession |
| 自信過剰 | じしんかじょう | overconfident, presumptuous |
| 自分 | じぶん | myself, yourself, oneself, himself, herself; I, me |
| 自助 | じじょ | self-help |
| 自動扉 | じどうとびら | automatic door |
| 自動販売機 | じどうはんばいき | vending machine |
| 自動車損害賠償責任保険 | じどうしゃそんがいばいしょうせきにんほけん | mandatory vehicle liability insurance |
| 自叙伝 | じじょでん | autobiography |
| 自堕落 | じだらく | depravity, self-indulgence |
| 自尊 | じそん | self-respect, esteem |
| 自己批判 | じこひはん | self-criticism |
| 自己流 | じこりゅう | one's own style, self-taught manner |
| 自己犠牲 | じこぎせい | self-sacrifice, self-renunciation |
| 自己矛盾 | じこむじゅん | self-contradiction, paradox, antinomy |
| 自己紹介 | じこしょうかい | self-introduction |
| 自己資本 | じこしほん | net worth, owned capital |
| 自己顕示 | じこけんじ | making oneself conspicuous, pressing one's own cause |
| 自律 | じりつ | autonomy |
| 自律神経 | じりつしんけい | autonomic nerves |
| 自慢 | じまん | pride, boast |
| 自慢話 | じまんばなし | boastful speech, bragging |
| 自我 | じが | self, the ego |
| 自戒 | じかい | self-admonition |
| 自暴自棄 | じぼうじき | desperation, despair, self-abandonment |
| 自殺未遂 | じさつみすい | attempted suicide |
| 自民 | じみん | Liberal Democratic Party, LDP |
| 自民党 | じみんとう | Liberal Democratic Party, LDP |
| 自治体 | じちたい | self-governing body, municipality, autonomous entity |
| 自治省 | じちしょう | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| 自浄 | じじょう | self-purification, self-cleansing |
| 自滅 | じめつ | ruining oneself, destroying oneself |
| 自炊 | じすい | cooking for oneself |
| 自然描写 | しぜんびょうしゃ | description of nature |
| 自然淘汰 | しぜんとうた | natural selection |
| 自由主義 | じゆうしゅぎ | liberalism |
| 自由化 | じゆうか | liberalization, liberalisation, freeing |
| 自由形 | じゆうがた | freestyle (e.g. swimming event) |
| 自由経済 | じゆうけいざい | free economy |
| 自由貿易 | じゆうぼうえき | free trade |
| 自由貿易地域 | じゆうぼうえきちいき | free trade zone, free trade area |
| 自由貿易帯域 | じゆうぼうえきたいいき | free trade zone, free trade area |
| 自白 | じはく | confession, acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
| 自社 | じしゃ | one's company; in-house, belonging to the company |
| 自筆 | じひつ | one's own handwriting |
| 自給 | じきゅう | self-support |
| 自縄自縛に陥る | じじょうじばくにおちいる | to be caught in one's own trap |
| 自薦 | じせん | self-recommendation |
| 自虐 | じぎゃく | masochism, inflicting damage to oneself |
| 自衛官 | じえいかん | (Japanese) Self Defense Force member (Defence) |
| 自衛隊 | じえいたい | self-defence force; Japan Self-Defence Force, JSDF |
| 自覚 | じかく | self-consciousness, self-awareness |
| 自負 | じふ | conceit, bragging about one's own ability |
| 自販 | じはん | automobile sales |
| 自賠法 | じばいほう | Automobile Accident Compensation Act |
| 自賠責保険 | じばいせきほけん | mandatory vehicle liability insurance |
| 自閉症 | じへいしょう | autism; autistic |
| 軽自動車 | けいじどうしゃ | light motor vehicle (lt 550cc) |
| 陸上自衛隊 | りくじょうじえいたい | Ground Self-Defense Forces (Defence) |