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牲 — Animal sacrifice

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary school#1274 most used
animal sacrifice, offering
On’yomiセイ (sei)
Kun’yomi

Stroke order (9 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 牲

WordReadingMeaning
犠牲者ぎせいしゃ
giseisha
victim (esp. someone killed); casualty
犠牲ぎせい
gisei
sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty

Study notes

牲 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1274 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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