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犧

犧 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. いけにえ。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「牛」+音符「羲」。「いけにえ」を意味する漢語｛犧｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

sacrifice

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ギ
  • キ
Kun (native)
  • いけにえ
Other languages
  • 拼音xi1
  • 한글heui
  • 한글sa
  • Hán-ViệtHy

Basics

Strokes
20 strokes
Radical
牛(うし)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+72A7

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰牛羲

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-16
Four Corner
2855.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4g13.1
Nelson
2867