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牲 means 'animal sacrifice'

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Strokes : 9    Frequency: 1715   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-30    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 0 words   Used in 16 words   Used in 3 names   Not used as a component
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Parents often make sacrifices to give children a good education. Find out how to say that, and then discover how maternal self-sacrifice may be harmful. See which term for “war victim” is right, depending on what the person experienced. Learn to say, “I must help her at any cost” and “She worked at the expense of her health,” as well as jargon for being a sacrificial lamb in the consumer world.
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⿰  牜 (牛) cow  生 life  
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犠 sacrifice  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 牲 is used 1 time, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 牲 is used 15 times, read 1 way.
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noun
victim; sacrifice; scapegoat
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An additional 犠 less common words include 牲 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Henshall: 1474  Joy o' Kanji : 1474  Key to Kanji: - 

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牲
セイ    animal sacrifice   
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牜
ギュウ   うし cow   
生
セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   うむ to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   おう to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
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