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to sacrifice one's life / to sacrifice (sth valued) / beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
HSK 6
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  *牢* | 牢* | *牢
firm / sturdy / fold (for animals) / sacrifice / prison
HSK 6
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
to consecrate / to enshrine and worship / an offering (to one's ancestors) / a sacrifice (to a god)
HSK 7-9
to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
HSK 7-9
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  *豁* | 豁* | *豁
opening / stake all / sacrifice / crack / slit
HSK 7-9
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  *祭* | 祭* | *祭
to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival
HSK 7-9
to offer sacrifices (to one's ancestors) / to hold or attend a memorial service
HSK 7-9
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  *明* | 明* | *明
bright / opposite: dark / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods
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  *醮* | 醮* | *醮
to perform sacrifice
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  *禫* | 禫* | *禫
sacrifice at the end of mourning
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  *籩* | 籩* | *籩
bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrifices or at banquets
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  *薦* | 薦* | *薦
to recommend / to offer sacrifice (arch.) / grass / straw mat
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  *祛* | 祛* | *祛
sacrifice to drive away calamity / to dispel / to drive away / to remove
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  *臘* | 臘* | *臘
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
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  *禜* | 禜* | *禜
sacrifice
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
to commit one's energy to / to devote oneself to / to sacrifice one's life for / (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to
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  *玥* | 玥* | *玥
pearl used in sacrifice
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  *祠* | 祠* | *祠
shrine / to offer a sacrifice
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  *墠* | 墠* | *墠
level spot for sacrifices
to be willing to / to be ready to / to be content with / accepting (of restriction, sacrifice, risk etc)
spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice / code of brotherhood / also pr. [yi4 qi5]
person willing to sacrifice his life (for a good cause)
(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
to sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom) / fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
to sacrifice one's life
to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people / altruism
to offer sacrifices to the gods
(religion) to sacrifice / sacrifice / animal offered as sacrifice
sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball)
to offer one's life in sacrifice
I beg you to partake of this sacrifice (used at the end of an elegiac address)
to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius) / to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles
blood sacrifice / animal sacrifice (to a God or ancestral spirit)
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  *祀* | 祀* | *祀
to sacrifice / to offer libation to
to host a banquet / feast / banquet / ceremony of sacrifice
a worship ceremony for the dead / to offer sacrifice (to ancestors) / a libation
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  *佾* | 佾* | *佾
row of dancers at sacrifices
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
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  *瘞* | 瘞* | *瘞
bury / sacrifice
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  *膰* | 膰* | *膰
cooked meat used in sacrifice
sacrifice oneself for one's country / martyr
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
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  *簝* | 簝* | *簝
bamboo receptacle used to hold meat for temple sacrifices in ancient times
to die together in the name of love / to sacrifice oneself for love
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
to sacrifice one's life
to feed the starving ghosts (i.e. offer sacrifice to protect the departed spirit)
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  *餋* | 餋* | *餋
to offer sacrifices
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  *釁* | 釁* | *釁
quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
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  *軷* | 軷* | *軷
sacrifice
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  *禴* | 禴* | *禴
spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
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  *餕* | 餕* | *餕
remains of a sacrifice or a meal
sacrifices
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  *祫* | 祫* | *祫
triennial sacrifice to ancestors
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  *俎* | 俎* | *俎
a stand for food at sacrifice
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  *雩* | 雩* | *雩
summer sacrifice for rain
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  *犧* | 犧* | *犧
sacrifice
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
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  *礿* | 礿* | *礿
spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
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  *禘* | 禘* | *禘
imperial ancestral sacrifice
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  *飣* | 飣* | *飣
display food for show only / sacrifice
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  *禖* | 禖* | *禖
heir-requesting sacrifice
to offer one's life in sacrifice
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  *焄* | 焄* | *焄
fumes from sacrifice
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  *燔* | 燔* | *燔
burn / to roast meat for sacrifice
to abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people / altruism
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  *畤* | 畤* | *畤
ancient sacrifice
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
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  *禋* | 禋* | *禋
sacrifice
to offer / to give (as tribute) / to devote (one's life) / to sacrifice (oneself)
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  *餟* | 餟* | *餟
circle shrines and make sacrifices
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  *梡* | 梡* | *梡
(tree) / stand for sacrifice
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  *垗* | 垗* | *垗
sacrifice
to offer sacrifices to Confucius
to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)
to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god
human ladder (formed to help sb climb a wall etc); (fig.) person who sacrifices himself for others' success
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  *舋* | 舋* | *舋
variant of 釁|衅 / quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
(idiom) the dignity of authority is above life; one must be willing to sacrifice one's life rather than disobey a military order
sacrificed piece (in chess or Go) / abandoned child / (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or sacrificed (an ally, a product, employees etc) / (in expressions such as 拋家棄子|抛家弃子) to abandon one's child(ren)
to offer sacrifice
sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
history written in blood / epic period of struggle and sacrifice
to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
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  *禳* | 禳* | *禳
sacrifice for avoiding calamity
to wail at a funeral / formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed
pouring of wine on ground for sacrifice
selfless / self-sacrifice (to help others) / self-renunciation / altruism
to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
sb who sacrifices himself / sacrificial victim / sb who is expendable
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling / to pass the buck

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