自愛 in Chinese / Japanese...

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Self-Love / Love Yourself / Love Oneself

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zì ài

ji ai

Self-Love / Love Yourself / Love Oneself Scroll

自愛 means self-love, self-regard, regard for oneself, cherishing one's good name, taking care of oneself, or love myself.

In the Buddhist context, this is the cause of all pursuit or seeking, which in turn causes all suffering. All Buddhas discharge themselves from self-love and all pursuits of personal gratification. Such elimination of self-love is a step towards nirvāṇa.

This title can be taken as positive or negative, depending on how you read it. Some will see it as arrogant, and others will read it as a token of self-respect. Because of this ambiguity, I do not recommend this title for a wall scroll.

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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 自愛 search...

Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese	Pronunciation Romanization	Simple Dictionary Definition
自愛自爱 see styles	zì ài zi4 ai4 tzu ai jiai じあい	More info & calligraphy: Self-Love / Love Yourself / Love Oneself self-respect; self-love; self-regard; regard for oneself; to cherish one's good name; to take good care of one's health (n,vs,vi) (1) (See ご自愛ください) taking care of oneself; (n,vs,vi) (2) self-love Self-love, cause of all pursuit or seeking, which in turn causes all suffering. All Buddhas put away self-love and all pursuit, or seeking, such elimination being nirvāṇa.
自愛進 see styles	rabaぁzu らばぁず	自愛進 Custom Scroll (female given name) Rabaazu
自重自愛 see styles	jichoujiai / jichojiai じちょうじあい	自重自愛 Custom Scroll (noun/participle) taking care of oneself; looking after oneself
ご自愛下さい see styles	gojiaikudasai ごじあいください	ご自愛下さい Custom Scroll (expression) please take care of yourself; please be careful not to... (concerning one's health or well-being)
三自愛國教會三自爱国教会 see styles	sān zì ài guó jiào huì san1 zi4 ai4 guo2 jiao4 hui4 san tzu ai kuo chiao hui	三自愛國教會 Custom Scroll Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
御自愛下さい see styles	gojiaikudasai ごじあいください	御自愛下さい Custom Scroll (expression) please take care of yourself; please be careful not to... (concerning one's health or well-being)
ご自愛ください see styles	gojiaikudasai ごじあいください	ご自愛ください Custom Scroll (expression) please take care of yourself; please be careful not to... (concerning one's health or well-being)
Variations: ご自愛くださいご自愛下さい御自愛下さい see styles	gojiaikudasai ごじあいください	(expression) please take care of yourself; please be careful not to... (concerning one's health or well-being)

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title	Characters	Romaji (Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Self-Love Love Yourself Love Oneself	自愛自爱	ji ai / jiai	zì ài / zi4 ai4 / zi ai / ziai	tzu ai / tzuai
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.