自生自滅 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 自生自灭 zìshēngzìmiè ㄗˋ ㄕㄥ ㄗˋ ㄇㄧㄝˋ to emerge and perish on its own to run its course (idiom) Character by character 自(zì)self 生(shēng)grow 自(zì)self 滅(miè)extinguish or put out A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0