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犧

犧

See also: 犠 and 牺

Translingual

Traditional 犧
Shinjitai 犠
Simplified 牺

Han character

犧 (radical 93 牛+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹手廿土尸 (HQTGS), four-corner 28553)

  1. sacrifice, give up
  2. sacrificial

References

  • KangXi: page 705, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1117, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1822, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+72A7

Chinese

trad. 犧
simp. 牺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 犧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 許羈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /xje/
Wang
Li		 /xǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 犧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ̊(r)a[j]/
English sacrificial animal

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 犧
Reading # 1/1
No. 13057
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 犧
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋral/

Noun

犧

  1. sacrifice

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

犧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

See also

Korean

Hanja

犧 • ‎(hui, sa) (hangeul 희, 사, revised hui, sa, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, sa, Yale huy, sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

犧 (hy, hi)

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