Memory phrase for the character: 犠


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Meaning

sacrifice, scapegoat

Pronunciation

GI

Explanation

Left: cow 牛, right: morality, justice 義 (If the sheep 羊 is killed by a hand 手 with a halberd 戈, is that justice?)

Mnemonic


 
Cows 牛 and sheep 羊 turn by me 我 (= the hand 手 at a halberd 戈) into: sacrifices.

Radicals

cowShows the head キ of a cow with only one horn ノ.
righteousness
sheepPictogram of a sheep from above with horns 丷 backbone 丨 and wool 三 extending to the sides.
I, myself
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 Vocabulary

犠牲者 ぎせいしゃ  victim, martyr
犠牲 ぎせい  sacrifice


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