Meanings

Animal Sacrifice, Offering

Radicals

牛

Decomposition

⿰牛生

Etymology

Pictophonetic: ox

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 vertical right-to-left

4 rising bottom-to-top

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

8 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セイ sei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

14 words total

Other (14 words)

犠牲者ぎせいしゃ

victim (esp. someone killed)

sacrifice

self-sacrifice

casualty

atomic bomb victim

sacrifice fly

war victim

sacrifice bunt

sacrifice (bunt or fly)

犠牲になるぎせいになる

to be sacrificed

どんな犠牲を払ってもどんなぎせいをはらっても

at all costs

犠牲を払うぎせいをはらう

to make sacrifices for

犠牲者を出すぎせいしゃをだす

to claim victims

犠牲者が出るぎせいしゃがでる

to claim victims

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