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to sacrifice one's life / to sacrifice (sth valued) / beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
HSK 6
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
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  *瘞* | 瘞* | *瘞
bury / sacrifice
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
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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  *豁* | 豁* | *豁
opening / stake all / sacrifice / crack / slit
HSK 7-9
to consecrate / to enshrine and worship / an offering (to one's ancestors) / a sacrifice (to a god)
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
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  *牢* | 牢* | *牢
firm / sturdy / fold (for animals) / sacrifice / prison
HSK 6
to offer sacrifices to one's ancestors
sb who sacrifices himself / sacrificial victim / sb who is expendable
to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
HSK 7-9
human ladder (formed to help sb climb a wall etc); (fig.) person who sacrifices himself for others' success
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  *祛* | 祛* | *祛
sacrifice to drive away calamity / to dispel / to drive away / to remove
sacrificing one's life generously (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
to die without regrets (idiom); to sacrifice oneself without hesitation
to offer sacrifices (to one's ancestors) / to hold or attend a memorial service
HSK 7-9
to host a banquet / feast / banquet / ceremony of sacrifice
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
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)
sacrifice oneself for one's country / martyr
a worship ceremony for the dead / to offer sacrifice (to ancestors) / a libation
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
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  *薦* | 薦* | *薦
to recommend / to offer sacrifice (arch.) / grass / straw mat
to sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
to give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius) / to choose honor over life; would rather sacrifice one's life than one's principles
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  *佾* | 佾* | *佾
row of dancers at sacrifices
heroically sacrificing one's life (idiom); to sacrifice oneself fervently to the cause
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  *梡* | 梡* | *梡
(tree) / stand for sacrifice
lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom) / fig. to die horribly; to sacrifice one's life
"flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything to send their children abroad to study
to offer sacrifice
to feed the starving ghosts (i.e. offer sacrifice to protect the departed spirit)
to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)
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  *祀* | 祀* | *祀
to sacrifice / to offer libation to
to offer sacrifices to the gods
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  *禋* | 禋* | *禋
sacrifice
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  *釁* | 釁* | *釁
quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
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
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  *醮* | 醮* | *醮
to perform sacrifice
pouring of wine on ground for sacrifice
person willing to sacrifice his life (for a good cause)
to heroically sacrifice one's life
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)
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  *飣* | 飣* | *飣
display food for show only / sacrifice
to abandon self for others (idiom); to sacrifice oneself to help the people / altruism
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  *俎* | 俎* | *俎
a stand for food at sacrifice
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  *焄* | 焄* | *焄
fumes from sacrifice
to coerce by invoking moral obligations (duty, sacrifice, reciprocation etc); to lay a guilt trip on sb
to sacrifice one's life
to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people / altruism
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  *燔* | 燔* | *燔
burn / to roast meat for sacrifice
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  *簝* | 簝* | *簝
bamboo receptacle used to hold meat for temple sacrifices in ancient times
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  *餋* | 餋* | *餋
to offer sacrifices
(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)
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  *玥* | 玥* | *玥
pearl used in sacrifice
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  *礿* | 礿* | *礿
spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god
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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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  *祠* | 祠* | *祠
shrine / to offer a sacrifice
history written in blood / epic period of struggle and sacrifice
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
to sacrifice one's life
rook sacrifice to save the king (in Chinese chess); fig. to protect a senior figure by blaming an underling / to pass the buck
to die together in the name of love / to sacrifice oneself for love
to be willing to / to be ready to / to be content with / accepting (of restriction, sacrifice, risk etc)
sacrifice hit (in sport, e.g. baseball)
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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
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
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  *禳* | 禳* | *禳
sacrifice for avoiding calamity
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  *墠* | 墠* | *墠
level spot for sacrifices
blood sacrifice / animal sacrifice (to a God or ancestral spirit)
(religion) to sacrifice / sacrifice / animal offered as sacrifice
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  *禫* | 禫* | *禫
sacrifice at the end of mourning
spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice / code of brotherhood / also pr. [yi4 qi5]
to offer one's life in sacrifice
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
(Islam) Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
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  *祫* | 祫* | *祫
triennial sacrifice to ancestors
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  *軷* | 軷* | *軷
sacrifice
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  *餟* | 餟* | *餟
circle shrines and make sacrifices
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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  *犧* | 犧* | *犧
sacrifice
to offer / to give (as tribute) / to devote (one's life) / to sacrifice (oneself)
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  *雩* | 雩* | *雩
summer sacrifice for rain
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  *禘* | 禘* | *禘
imperial ancestral sacrifice
to offer sacrifices (to gods or ancestors) whilst abstaining from meat, wine etc
to wail at a funeral / formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed
I beg you to partake of this sacrifice (used at the end of an elegiac address)
car slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car
to give sacrifice
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  *禴* | 禴* | *禴
spring imperial ancestral sacrifice
(idiom) the dignity of authority is above life; one must be willing to sacrifice one's life rather than disobey a military order
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  *畤* | 畤* | *畤
ancient sacrifice
sacrifices
to pray for luck and sacrifice to avoid disasters (i.e. traditional superstitions)
to offer sacrifices to Confucius
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  *禜* | 禜* | *禜
sacrifice

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