Illustration: At a neighborhood cooking gathering, an amateur cook places an extravagantly tall chef's hat on his own head. He points proudly at his chest and presents his frying pan with a sweeping, authoritative gesture, clearly announcing himself to the assembled neighbors.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ称しょう

jishou

to call oneself, to claim to be

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは財政ざいせいの専門家せんもんかであると自称じしょうした。

    He claimed to be an expert in finance.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 半蔵はんぞうの子孫しそんを自称じしょうする私立探偵しりつたんていが登場とうじょうする。

    In this program, a private detective who introduced himself as a descendant of Hanzo appeared.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これは、徳川家とくがわかが清和源氏せいわげんしの末裔まつえいを自称じしょうしていたためである。

    This was because the Tokugawa family claimed themselves to be the descendants of the Seiwa Genji.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 自称

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 称appellation; praiseOnショウKunたたえる・となえる・あげる

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