Illustration: At a Japanese pottery studio's packing bench, a customer has opened a badly crushed delivery box. Torn cushioning and a dented outer carton lie spread around the bench, but the ceramic bowl removed from them is perfectly intact.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ体たい

jitai

itself

Example sentences

  1. 人間にんげんの存在そんざい自体じたいが奇跡きせきである。

    Our existence is a miracle in itself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この薬くすりはそれ自体じたいでは毒どくではない。

    This medicine is not a poison in itself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 競争きょうそうそれ自体じたいは悪わるくない。

    Competition is not bad in itself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 自体

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち

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