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自食其力

zì shí qí lì

Definition

  1. (lit.) to eat off one's own strength (idiom)
  2. (fig.) to stand on one's own feet
  3. to earn one's own living

Character Decomposition

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食
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亽
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艮
其
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一
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力
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丿

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