牺
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sacrifice
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 牛 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 犧
- Common rank
- #3,528
- Unicode
- U+727A
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 牺
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 英勇牺牲 | to heroically sacrifice one's life | |
| 牺牲打 | sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball) | |
| 牺牲者 | sb who sacrifices himself; sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable | |
| 牺牲品 | sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable; item sold at a loss | |
| 伏牺 | variant of 伏羲[Fu2 xi1] | |
| 庖牺氏 | another name for 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1], consort of 女媧|女娲[Nu:3 wa1] | |
| 牺牲 | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 西 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 西 sound part | west, western, westward | |
| 晒 | to dry in the sun; to expose to the sun | |
| 栖 | perch, roost, to stay | |
| 洒 | to pour, to spill; to scatter, to shed; to wipe away | |
| 茜 | reed, madder; Rubia cordifolia | |
| 溧 | a river in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces | |
| 哂 | to smile; to laugh at; to sneer | |
| 恓 | vexed | |
| 硒 | selenium | |
| 舾 | equipment onboard a ship | |
| 垔 | to restrain; to dam a stream and change its direction; a mound | |
| 粞 | ground rice; to thresh rice |