shēng
sacrificial animal
Phonosemantic compound. 牛 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 牲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to sacrifice one's life | ||
livestock | ||
domestic animal | ||
sacrificial victim | ||
beast of burden |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 18.4366% of movies
1536th most common character in movies
1582nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7272 |
Shuowen | “牲，牛完全。从牛，生聲。” |
Sources
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