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犠 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「牛」

道
3Junior high level ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「牛」
On
ギ・キぎ・き · gi · ki
Kun
いけにえikenie
Meaning
sacrifice

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

牛 "ox" with 羲: an ox offered up — a sacrifice.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onギぎgi犠牲ぎせい犠打ぎだ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 犠牲ぎせい

    sacrifice; victim

  • 犠打ぎだ

    sacrifice hit

More words with this kanji

  • 犠牲者ぎせいしゃ

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

多(おお)くの犠牲(ぎせい)をはらって守(まも)った。

They defended it at great sacrifice.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

犠打犠牲犠打to hit牲animal…牛cow牝female牟low牢prison牡male企undert…忌abhor軌track既alread…姫prince…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 牛Map of reading ギAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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