牲 (shēng)
domestic animal/sacrifice
How 牲 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 牛 — cow
- Traditional
- 牲
- Simplified
- 牲 (unchanged)
Common words using 牲
- 犧牲 xīshēng
- to sacrifice oneself; to lay down one's life; to do sth at the expense of
- 牲口 shēngkou
- animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc); beast of burden
- 牲畜 shēngchù
- domesticated animals; livestock
- 犧牲品 xīshēngpǐn
- victim; prey; loss leader (pricing)
- 犧牲者 xīshēngzhě
- victim; prey
- 畜牲 chùshēng
- livestock, or specifically the six farm animals cow, horse, sheep, cock, dog, pig 牛馬羊雞狗豬|牛马羊鸡狗猪; an insult, You animal!
牲 in a sentence
為了這份工作，他犧牲了很多時間。
Wèile zhè fèn gōngzuò, tā xīshēngle hěnduō shíjiān.
“He sacrificed a lot of time for this job.”
How common is 牲?
牲 is the 1,580th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.1% of all running text.
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