"犧牲" meaning in Chinese

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Noun

IPA: /ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Singapore], /hi³³ sŋ̍³³/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Singapore], /hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung, Taipei], /hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/, /hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/, /hi³³ sŋ̍³³/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/ Chinese transliterations: xīshēng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], hei¹ sang¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hî-sên [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], hi-sng [Hokkien, POJ], hi-seng [Hokkien, POJ], hi¹ sêng¹ [Peng'im, Teochew], xīshēng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], sisheng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], hsi¹-shêng¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], syī-shēng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], shisheng [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], сишэн [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], sišɛn [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], hēi sāng [Cantonese, Yale], hei¹ sang¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], héi¹ seng¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], hî-sên [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], hi´ sen´ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], hi¹ sen¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], hi-sng [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hisngf [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], hi-sing [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hisefng [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], hi seng [POJ, Teochew], xje sraeng [Middle-Chinese], /*hŋral sreŋ/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: "sacrifice (animal)" (pre-Qin) -> "to immolate" (c. 1840) -> "to sacrifice" (c. 1900). Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 犧牲
  1. sacrifice (animal presented to a deity, deceased ancestor, etc.) Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-犧牲-zh-noun-RMbNvo5j Disambiguation of Death: 38 22 40 Categories (other): Elementary Mandarin Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 39 18 43

Verb

IPA: /ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Singapore], /hi³³ sŋ̍³³/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou], /hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Singapore], /hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung, Taipei], /hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/, /hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/, /hi³³ sŋ̍³³/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/, /hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/ Chinese transliterations: xīshēng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], hei¹ sang¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hî-sên [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], hi-sng [Hokkien, POJ], hi-seng [Hokkien, POJ], hi¹ sêng¹ [Peng'im, Teochew], xīshēng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], sisheng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], hsi¹-shêng¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], syī-shēng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], shisheng [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], сишэн [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], sišɛn [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], hēi sāng [Cantonese, Yale], hei¹ sang¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], héi¹ seng¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], hî-sên [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], hi´ sen´ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], hi¹ sen¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], hi-sng [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hisngf [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], hi-sing [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hisefng [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], hi seng [POJ, Teochew], xje sraeng [Middle-Chinese], /*hŋral sreŋ/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: "sacrifice (animal)" (pre-Qin) -> "to immolate" (c. 1840) -> "to sacrifice" (c. 1900). Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 犧牲
  1. to give one's life for a certain cause; to sacrifice oneself Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-犧牲-zh-verb-F8sp9R~h Disambiguation of Death: 38 22 40 Categories (other): Elementary Mandarin Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 39 18 43
  2. (figuratively) to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Death Categories (lifeform): Livestock
    Sense id: en-犧牲-zh-verb-zR5daFNe Disambiguation of Death: 38 22 40 Disambiguation of Livestock: 33 17 50 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Elementary Mandarin Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 16 20 64 Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 39 18 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 工資犧牲 (gōngzī xīshēng), 工资牺牲 (gōngzī xīshēng), 犧牲品 (xīshēngpǐn), 牺牲品 (xīshēngpǐn)
Synonyms: 捐軀 (juānqū), 捐躯 (juānqū), 捨身 (shěshēn), 舍身 (shěshēn), 獻身 (xiànshēn), 献身 (xiànshēn), 赴死 (fùsǐ), 陣亡 (zhènwáng) (english: to die in battle), 阵亡 (zhènwáng) (english: to die in battle), 丟掉 (diūdiào), 丢掉 (diūdiào), 丟棄 (diūqì), 丢弃 (diūqì), [in-compounds, literary], 割捨 (gēshě) [literary], 割舍 (gēshě) [literary], 屏棄 (bǐngqì), 屏弃 (bǐngqì), 廢棄 (fèiqì), 废弃 (fèiqì), 扔掉 (rēngdiào), 扔棄 (rēngqì), 扔弃 (rēngqì), (pāo), (pāo), 㧒捒 [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 㧒捔 [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 拋棄 (pāoqì), 抛弃 (pāoqì), [in-compounds, literary], 捨去 (shěqù) [literary], 舍去 (shěqù) [literary], 捨棄 (shěqì), 舍弃 (shěqì), 揕捒 [Hokkien], 揚棄 (yángqì), 扬弃 (yángqì), 摒棄 (bìngqì), 摒弃 (bìngqì), 擯棄 (bìnqì), 摈弃 (bìnqì), 擯除 (bìnchú), 摈除 (bìnchú), 擲捒 [Hokkien], 掷捒 [Hokkien], 放捒 [Hokkien], 放棄 (fàngqì), 放弃 (fàngqì), 放生 [Hokkien, Singapore], 棄絕 (qìjué) [literary], 弃绝 (qìjué) [literary], 甩捒 [Hokkien], 甩掉 (shuǎidiào), 遺棄 (yíqì), 遗弃 (yíqì), 離棄 (líqì), 离弃 (líqì)

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  "etymology_text": "\"sacrifice (animal)\" (pre-Qin) -> \"to immolate\" (c. 1840) -> \"to sacrifice\" (c. 1900).",
  "head_templates": [
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      },
      "expansion": "犧牲",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 18 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 22 40",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "zh:Death",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I dare not exaggerate the amount of sacrifices, jade, and silk offered to the gods; I always tell the gods the truth.",
          "ref": "犧牲玉帛,弗敢加也,必以信。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "牺牲玉帛,弗敢加也,必以信。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nXīshēng yùbó, fú gǎn jiā yě, bì yǐ xìn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sacrifice (animal presented to a deity, deceased ancestor, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-犧牲-zh-noun-RMbNvo5j",
      "links": [
        [
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          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-seng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsi¹-shêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syī-shēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сишэн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sišɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēi sāng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "héi¹ seng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi´ sen´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisngf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sing"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisefng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi seng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xje sraeng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "犧牲"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "gōngzī xīshēng",
      "word": "工資犧牲"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "gōngzī xīshēng",
      "word": "工资牺牲"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xīshēngpǐn",
      "word": "犧牲品"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xīshēngpǐn",
      "word": "牺牲品"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "犧牲"
          },
          "expansion": "犧牲",
          "name": "lang"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese:",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "犠%牲",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "gloss": ""
          },
          "expansion": "犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)",
          "name": "ja-r"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "희생(犧牲)",
            "3": "",
            "4": "",
            "5": "",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "t2": "",
            "t3": "",
            "t4": ""
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "犧牲",
            "sc": "Hani"
          },
          "expansion": "犧牲",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "hi sinh",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "tr": "犧牲"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "犧牲",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "3": "희생",
            "4": "hi sinh",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "h": "犧牲",
            "j2": "",
            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
            "o": "犧牲",
            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "犠%牲",
            "v": "犧牲",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
            "vt": ""
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "3": "희생",
            "4": "hi sinh",
            "s": "犠%牲"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "\"sacrifice (animal)\" (pre-Qin) -> \"to immolate\" (c. 1840) -> \"to sacrifice\" (c. 1900).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "犧牲",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 18 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 22 40",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "zh:Death",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to die a hero's death",
          "roman": "zhuàngliè xīshēng",
          "text": "壯烈犧牲/壮烈牺牲",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to give one's life for a certain cause; to sacrifice oneself"
      ],
      "id": "en-犧牲-zh-verb-F8sp9R~h",
      "links": [
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "certain",
          "certain"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 20 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 18 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 22 40",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "zh:Death",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 17 50",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Livestock",
          "orig": "zh:Livestock",
          "parents": [
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"Some people\" are basically incurable, death penalty abolition merely sacrifices justice",
          "ref": "「有些人」根本沒救,廢死徒犧牲了正義 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "「有些人」根本没救,废死徒牺牲了正义 [MSC, simp.]\n“yǒuxiē rén” gēnběn méi jiù, fèisǐ tú xīshēng le zhèngyì [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard"
      ],
      "id": "en-犧牲-zh-verb-zR5daFNe",
      "links": [
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ],
        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
        ],
        [
          "discard",
          "discard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-seng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsi¹-shêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syī-shēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сишэн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sišɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēi sāng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "héi¹ seng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi´ sen´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisngf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sing"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisefng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi seng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xje sraeng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "juānqū",
      "word": "捐軀"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "juānqū",
      "word": "捐躯"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěshēn",
      "word": "捨身"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěshēn",
      "word": "舍身"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xiànshēn",
      "word": "獻身"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "xiànshēn",
      "word": "献身"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "fùsǐ",
      "word": "赴死"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "to die in battle",
      "roman": "zhènwáng",
      "word": "陣亡"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "to die in battle",
      "roman": "zhènwáng",
      "word": "阵亡"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "diūdiào",
      "word": "丟掉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "diūdiào",
      "word": "丢掉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "diūqì",
      "word": "丟棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "diūqì",
      "word": "丢弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "gēshě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割捨"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "gēshě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割舍"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bǐngqì",
      "word": "屏棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bǐngqì",
      "word": "屏弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "fèiqì",
      "word": "廢棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "fèiqì",
      "word": "废弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "rēngdiào",
      "word": "扔掉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "rēngqì",
      "word": "扔棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "rēngqì",
      "word": "扔弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "pāo",
      "word": "拋"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "pāo",
      "word": "抛"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "㧒捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "㧒捔"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "pāoqì",
      "word": "拋棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "pāoqì",
      "word": "抛弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "捐"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěqù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "捨去"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěqù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "舍去"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěqì",
      "word": "捨棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shěqì",
      "word": "舍弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "揕捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "yángqì",
      "word": "揚棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "yángqì",
      "word": "扬弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìngqì",
      "word": "摒棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìngqì",
      "word": "摒弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìnqì",
      "word": "擯棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìnqì",
      "word": "摈弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìnchú",
      "word": "擯除"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bìnchú",
      "word": "摈除"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "擲捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "掷捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "放捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "fàngqì",
      "word": "放棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "fàngqì",
      "word": "放弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "放生"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "qìjué",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "棄絕"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "qìjué",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "弃绝"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "甩捒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shuǎidiào",
      "word": "甩掉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "yíqì",
      "word": "遺棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "yíqì",
      "word": "遗弃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "líqì",
      "word": "離棄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "líqì",
      "word": "离弃"
    }
  ],
  "word": "犧牲"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Death",
    "zh:Livestock"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "\"sacrifice (animal)\" (pre-Qin) -> \"to immolate\" (c. 1840) -> \"to sacrifice\" (c. 1900).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "犧牲",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I dare not exaggerate the amount of sacrifices, jade, and silk offered to the gods; I always tell the gods the truth.",
          "ref": "犧牲玉帛,弗敢加也,必以信。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "牺牲玉帛,弗敢加也,必以信。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nXīshēng yùbó, fú gǎn jiā yě, bì yǐ xìn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sacrifice (animal presented to a deity, deceased ancestor, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-seng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsi¹-shêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syī-shēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сишэн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sišɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēi sāng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "héi¹ seng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi´ sen´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisngf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sing"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisefng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi seng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xje sraeng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "犧牲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Death",
    "zh:Livestock"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "gōngzī xīshēng",
      "word": "工資犧牲"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gōngzī xīshēng",
      "word": "工资牺牲"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xīshēngpǐn",
      "word": "犧牲品"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xīshēngpǐn",
      "word": "牺牲品"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "犧牲"
          },
          "expansion": "犧牲",
          "name": "lang"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese:",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "犠%牲",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "gloss": ""
          },
          "expansion": "犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)",
          "name": "ja-r"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "희생(犧牲)",
            "3": "",
            "4": "",
            "5": "",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "t2": "",
            "t3": "",
            "t4": ""
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "犧牲",
            "sc": "Hani"
          },
          "expansion": "犧牲",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "hi sinh",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "tr": "犧牲"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "犧牲",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "3": "희생",
            "4": "hi sinh",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "h": "犧牲",
            "j2": "",
            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
            "o": "犧牲",
            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "犠%牲",
            "v": "犧牲",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
            "vt": ""
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "ぎ%せい",
            "3": "희생",
            "4": "hi sinh",
            "s": "犠%牲"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sino-Xenic (犧牲):\n* → Japanese: 犠(ぎ)牲(せい) (gisei)\n* → Korean: 희생(犧牲) (huisaeng)\n* → Vietnamese: hi sinh (犧牲)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "\"sacrifice (animal)\" (pre-Qin) -> \"to immolate\" (c. 1840) -> \"to sacrifice\" (c. 1900).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "犧牲",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to die a hero's death",
          "roman": "zhuàngliè xīshēng",
          "text": "壯烈犧牲/壮烈牺牲",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to give one's life for a certain cause; to sacrifice oneself"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "certain",
          "certain"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"Some people\" are basically incurable, death penalty abolition merely sacrifices justice",
          "ref": "「有些人」根本沒救,廢死徒犧牲了正義 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "「有些人」根本没救,废死徒牺牲了正义 [MSC, simp.]\n“yǒuxiē rén” gēnběn méi jiù, fèisǐ tú xīshēng le zhèngyì [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "give up",
          "give up"
        ],
        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
        ],
        [
          "discard",
          "discard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) to sacrifice (give away something valuable); to give up; to abandon; to discard"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-seng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xīshēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄧ ㄕㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsi¹-shêng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syī-shēng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shisheng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сишэн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sišɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hēi sāng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hei¹ sang¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "héi¹ seng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hî-sên"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi´ sen´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi¹ sen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisngf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi-sing"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hisefng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hi seng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xje sraeng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hei̯⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi²⁴⁻¹¹ sen²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² sŋ̍⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³ sŋ̍³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻²² seŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi³³⁻²³ seŋ³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*hŋral sreŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "juānqū",
      "word": "捐軀"
    },
    {
      "roman": "juānqū",
      "word": "捐躯"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěshēn",
      "word": "捨身"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěshēn",
      "word": "舍身"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiànshēn",
      "word": "獻身"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiànshēn",
      "word": "献身"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fùsǐ",
      "word": "赴死"
    },
    {
      "english": "to die in battle",
      "roman": "zhènwáng",
      "word": "陣亡"
    },
    {
      "english": "to die in battle",
      "roman": "zhènwáng",
      "word": "阵亡"
    },
    {
      "roman": "diūdiào",
      "word": "丟掉"
    },
    {
      "roman": "diūdiào",
      "word": "丢掉"
    },
    {
      "roman": "diūqì",
      "word": "丟棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "diūqì",
      "word": "丢弃"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gēshě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割捨"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gēshě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "割舍"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐngqì",
      "word": "屏棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐngqì",
      "word": "屏弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fèiqì",
      "word": "廢棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fèiqì",
      "word": "废弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rēngdiào",
      "word": "扔掉"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rēngqì",
      "word": "扔棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rēngqì",
      "word": "扔弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "pāo",
      "word": "拋"
    },
    {
      "roman": "pāo",
      "word": "抛"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "㧒捒"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "㧒捔"
    },
    {
      "roman": "pāoqì",
      "word": "拋棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "pāoqì",
      "word": "抛弃"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "捐"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěqù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "捨去"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěqù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "舍去"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěqì",
      "word": "捨棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shěqì",
      "word": "舍弃"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "揕捒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yángqì",
      "word": "揚棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yángqì",
      "word": "扬弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìngqì",
      "word": "摒棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìngqì",
      "word": "摒弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìnqì",
      "word": "擯棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìnqì",
      "word": "摈弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìnchú",
      "word": "擯除"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bìnchú",
      "word": "摈除"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "擲捒"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "掷捒"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "放捒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fàngqì",
      "word": "放棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fàngqì",
      "word": "放弃"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "放生"
    },
    {
      "roman": "qìjué",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "棄絕"
    },
    {
      "roman": "qìjué",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "弃绝"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "甩捒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shuǎidiào",
      "word": "甩掉"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yíqì",
      "word": "遺棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yíqì",
      "word": "遗弃"
    },
    {
      "roman": "líqì",
      "word": "離棄"
    },
    {
      "roman": "líqì",
      "word": "离弃"
    }
  ],
  "word": "犧牲"
}

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