Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
Variants:
sacrifice
Kun:
いけにえ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1189 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 犠牲者 【ギセイシャ】 victim (esp. someone killed), casualty
  • 犠牲 【ギセイ】 sacrifice, victim (esp. someone killed), casualty, sacrifice (to a deity)
  • 供犠 【クギ】 sacrifice, sacrificial animal

Kun reading compounds

  • 生贄 【いけにえ】 (living) sacrifice, victim, scapegoat

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1
Korean:
heui

Spanish

  • sacrificio
  • chivo expiatorio
  • víctima

Portuguese

  • Sacrifício

French

  • sacrifice
1140 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1292 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2865 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1811 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1522 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
728 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
741 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
937 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1294 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1394 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
746 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1010 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
650 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20190P Morohashi
1089 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3550 New Nelson (John Haig)
643 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
693 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1874 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2459 2001 Kanji
4g13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-13 SKIP code
2855.3 Four corner code
1-21-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72a0 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
cow
Kun:
うし
On:
ギュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
1202 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 妓夫 【ギュウ】 pimp, brothel tout
  • 牛 【ウシ】 cattle (Bos taurus), cow, bull, ox, calf, beef, Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • 肉牛 【ニクギュウ】 beef cattle
  • 海牛 【カイギュウ】 sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs), sea cow

Kun reading compounds

  • 牛 【うし】 cattle (Bos taurus), cow, bull, ox, calf, beef, Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • 牛車 【ぎゅうしゃ】 ox carriage (for Heian-era nobles), oxcart
  • 去勢牛 【きょせいうし】 ox, bullock
  • 特牛 【こというし】 strong bull

Readings

Japanese names:
うじ、 ご
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
niu2
Korean:
u

Spanish

  • vaca
  • ganado

Portuguese

  • Vaca

French

  • vache
62 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
108 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
97 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
909 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2852 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
534 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
213 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
111 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
281 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
281 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
483 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1289 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4263 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2151 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2903 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
251 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
19922 Morohashi
3452 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3532 New Nelson (John Haig)
245 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
260 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
88 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2455 2001 Kanji
4g0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
2500.0 Four corner code
1-21-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
725b Unicode hex code