牲
domestic animal; sacrificial animal
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,842 U+7272
How 牲 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
牛 (semantic, “ox”) + 生 (phonetic, shēng)
How to remember it
domestic animal · Heisig RSH #2570
牛 cow + cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 生
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 生 (shēng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound component | shēng | life, lifetime; birth; growth |
| 性 | xìng | sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective |
| 星 | xīng | star, planet; a point of light |
| 胜 | shèng | victory; to excel, to truimph |
| 姓 | xìng | name, family name, surname; clan, people |
| 笙 | shēng | free reed mouth organ |
| 甥 | shēng | niece, nephew; sister's child |
| 旌 | jīng | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers |
| 眚 | shěng | cataract; fault, error, crime |
Words containing 牲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牲体 | shēng tǐ | body of an animal (or human) killed sacrificially |
| 三牲 | sān shēng | the three sacrificial animals (originally cow, sheep and pig; later pig, chicken and fish) |
| 牲口 | shēng kou | animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc); beast of burden |
| 牲礼 | shēng lǐ | (religion) to sacrifice; sacrifice; animal offered as sacrifice |
| 宰牲节 | Zǎi shēng jié | see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[Gu3 er3 bang1 jie2] |
| 英勇牺牲 | yīng yǒng xī shēng | to heroically sacrifice one's life |
| 牺牲打 | xī shēng dǎ | sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball) |
| 牺牲者 | xī shēng zhě | sb who sacrifices himself; sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable |
| 牺牲品 | xī shēng pǐn | sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable; item sold at a loss |
| 祭牲 | jì shēng | sacrificial animal |
| 牲畜 | shēng chù | farm animal; livestock |
| 畜牲 | chù shēng | variant of 畜生[chu4 sheng5] |
| 牺牲 | xī shēng | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice |