Illustration: In a school music room after classes, students organize a rehearsal themselves. One student gives a count-in with raised fingers, another adjusts a loose music stand, and two others have independently begun arranging chairs into a semicircle.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ主しゅ

jishu

autonomy, independence

Example sentences

  1. 靖国神社参拝やすくにじんじゃさんぱいに関かんしては閣僚かくりょうの自主じしゅ的てきな判断はんだんに任まかせられている。

    The question of worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine is left to the independent judgement of Cabinet ministers.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 山火事やまかじの後あとなので今年ことしの花火大会はなびたいかいは自主じしゅ的てきに中止ちゅうしを決定けっていしました。

    After the bushfires, we have independently decided to call off this year’s fireworks display.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. スペインから帰国きこくする人全員ひとぜんいんに14日間にちかんの自主じしゅ隔離かくりを義務付ぎむづけた。

    People returning from Spain are required to self-quarantine for 14 days.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 自主

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 主lord; chiefOnシュ・ス・シュウKunぬし・おも・あるじ

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