牲 – animal sacrifice, offering

9 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1274 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 牲 means animal sacrifice, offering. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is セイ (sei). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 牛 (no. 93).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	セイ	sei

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 牛 (Kangxi radical 93). Components: 牛・生.

Words using 牲

犠牲ぎせいsacrifice

Example sentences

数千人がこの病気の犠牲になった。

Thousands of people became victims of this disease.

Tatoeba #143516

Kanji with the same radical

物特犠牛牧

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