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Chinese
Etymology
"sacrifice (animal)" (pre-Qin) -> "to immolate" (c. 1840) -> "to sacrifice" (c. 1900).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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犧
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xī
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xje ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ŋ̊(r)a/
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| English
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sacrificial animal
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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犧
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牲
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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13057
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11313
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Phonetic
component
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我
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生
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Rime
group
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歌
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耕
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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犧
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生
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Old
Chinese
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/*hŋral/
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/*sreŋ/
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Noun
犧牲
- sacrifice (animal presented to a deity, deceased ancestor, etc.)
犧牲玉帛，弗敢加也，必以信。
牺牲玉帛，弗敢加也，必以信。 - From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
- Xīshēng yùbó, fú gǎn jiā yě, bì yǐ xìn.
- I dare not exaggerate the amount of sacrifices, jade, and silk offered to the gods; I always tell the gods the truth.
Verb
犧牲
- to give one's life for a certain cause; to sacrifice oneself
- 壯烈犧牲／壮烈牺牲 ― zhuàngliè xīshēng ― to die a hero's death
- (figuratively) to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard
「有些人」根本沒救，廢死徒犧牲了正義
「有些人」根本没救，废死徒牺牲了正义 - “yǒuxiē rén” gēnběn méi jiù, fèisǐ tú xīshēng le zhèngyì
- "Some people" are basically incurable, death penalty abolition merely sacrifices justice
Synonyms
- 捐軀 / 捐躯 (juānqū)
- 捨身 / 舍身 (shěshēn)
- 獻身 / 献身 (xiànshēn)
- 赴死 (fùsǐ)
- 陣亡 / 阵亡 (zhènwáng) (to die in battle)
- 丟掉 / 丢掉 (diūdiào)
- 丟棄 / 丢弃 (diūqì)
- 割 (literary, or in compounds)
- 割捨 / 割舍 (gēshě) (literary)
- 屏棄 / 屏弃 (bǐngqì)
- 廢棄 / 废弃 (fèiqì)
- 扔掉 (rēngdiào)
- 扔棄 / 扔弃 (rēngqì)
- 拋 / 抛 (pāo)
- 㧒捔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 㧒捒 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 拋棄 / 抛弃 (pāoqì)
- 挕㧒捔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 挕捒 (Hokkien)
- 挕擲捒 / 挕掷捒 (Xiamen Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 捐 (literary, or in compounds)
- 捨去 / 舍去 (shěqù) (literary)
- 捨棄 / 舍弃 (shěqì)
- 揕捒 (Hokkien)
- 揚棄 / 扬弃 (yángqì)
- 摒捒 (Hokkien)
- 摒棄 / 摒弃 (bìngqì)
- 擯棄 / 摈弃 (bìnqì)
- 擯除 / 摈除 (bìnchú)
- 擲㧒捔 / 掷㧒捔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 擲捒 / 掷捒 (Hokkien)
- 放捒 (Hokkien)
- 放棄 / 放弃 (fàngqì)
- 放生 (Singapore Hokkien)
- 棄絕 / 弃绝 (qìjué) (literary)
- 甩捒 (Hokkien)
- 甩掉 (shuǎidiào)
- 遺棄 / 遗弃 (yíqì)
- 離棄 / 离弃 (líqì)
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 犧牲 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 犧牲, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
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Korean
Noun
犧牲 • (huisaeng) (hangeul 희생)
- hanja form? of 희생 (“sacrifice”)
Vietnamese
Verb
犧牲
- chữ Hán form of hi sinh (“to sacrifice”)