doing as one pleases (idiom) / foot-loose and fancy free
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on one's own / without consulting others
communications automation
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
free to come and go (idiom) / to have room to maneuver
to have a fluent command of (idiom)
wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust
there's no place like home (idiom)
close the country to international intercourse
cannot control oneself (idiom) / to be beside oneself
unnatural / occult
to let nature take its course (idiom)
lit. looking at one's shadow and feeling sorry for oneself (idiom) / fig. alone and dejected
to strut about feeling complacent (idiom)
(dialect) oneself / by oneself
Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom) / to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)
variant of 自個兒|自个儿[]
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
(literary) to commit suicide / to take one's own life
Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party)
see 自流井區|自流井区[]
Ziliujing, a district of Zigong City 自貢市|自贡市[], Sichuan
Friends of Nature (Chinese environmental NGO)
Free China (Cold War era term for the Republic of China on Taiwan, as distinct from "Red China")
Radio Free Asia
Cuba Libre
Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone (Tw)
Statue of Liberty
Libreville, capital of Gabon (Tw)
Liberal Democratic Party
Statue of Liberty
Free Software Foundation
(literary) to hang oneself
(literary) to kill oneself / to commit suicide
see 自貢市|自贡市[]
Zigong, prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province 四川省[]
Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, in Liuzhou City 柳州市[], Guangxi
abbr. for 三自愛國教會|三自爱国教会[], Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
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