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sacrifice, give up; sacrificial
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 6 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading suō Cantonese reading hei1
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) sacrifice, give up; sacrificial

CEDICT Entries:

   [ ]    sacrifice
   [ shēng ]    to sacrifice one's life, to sacrifice (sth valued), beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
   [ shēng pǐn ]    sacrificial victim, sb who is expendable, item sold at a loss
   [ shēng ]    sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball)
   [ shēng zhě ]    sb who sacrifices himself, sacrificial victim, sb who is expendable
⇒    [ ]    variant of 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1]
⇒    [ paó shì ]    another name for 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1], consort of 女媧|女娲[Nu:3 wa1]
⇒    [ yīng yǒng shēng ]    to heroically sacrifice one's life

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