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自称

じしょう

Readings

じしょう

Meanings

  1. 1.
    adj-fself-proclaimed; self-professed; self-styled; would-be
  2. 2.
    n, vs, vtprofessing oneself to be; calling oneself; describing oneself as
  3. 3.
    nfirst person

Kanji breakdown

N36 strokesGrade 2
N510 strokesGrade 8

Example sentences

彼は財政の専門家であると自称した。

He claimed to be an expert in finance.

それからまもなく幾人かの測量士と自称する変な服装をした人たちが集落にやってきて、祖母の小屋の前を測っていきました。

Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.

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自称じしょう

self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person

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