牺牲 xīshēng▶ เสียสละ

Stroke order

牺牲 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 牺 — 10 strokes
• 牲 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to sacrifice one's life
2. to sacrifice (sth valued)
3. beast slaughtered as a sacrifice

Related words

• 牲畜ปศุสัตว์

牺牲 is pronounced xīshēng and means “เสียสละ”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 牺牲 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.