自慢
じまん · jiman · JLPT N3 · noun
pride
🦚 自慢 = self (自) + conceited (慢): being full of yourself, out loud
自 means self; 慢 here carries its older sense of haughty or conceited, as in 慢心 (self-conceit), not slow. Self plus conceit gives boasting. Sound hook: jiman is like gee, man, look what I did.
自 — pictograph of a nose
自 originally depicted a human nose, shown frontally with the bridge and nostrils. Ancient Chinese pointed to their own nose to mean 'me,' so 自 shifted to mean 'self' or 'oneself.' A new character 鼻 was later created to carry the original 'nose' meaning.
慢 — heart radical 忄 + 曼 màn (phonetic)
慢 is a phonetic-semantic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals a feeling or mental state, while 曼 supplies the sound màn. Originally it meant 'lazy' or 'negligent,' a slack state of mind, and later shifted to its modern sense of 'slow.'