牺 — Chinese character
牺
xī
to sacrifice, to give up, to die for a cause
- Pinyin
- xī
- Radical
- 93 ⽜ (Cow)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 牛 西
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ox; meaning component 牛; sound component 西
- Traditional
- 犧
Common words with 牺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牺牲 (犧牲) | xī shēng | to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued) |
| 牺牲品 (犧牲品) | xī shēng pǐn | sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable |
| 牺牲者 (犧牲者) | xī shēng zhě | sb who sacrifices himself; sacrificial victim |
| 牺牲打 (犧牲打) | xī shēng dǎ | sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball) |
| 英勇牺牲 (英勇犧牲) | yīng yǒng xī shēng | to heroically sacrifice one's life |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.