犧

See also: 犠 and 牺
犧 U+72A7, 犧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72A7
← 犦
[U+72A6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 犨 →
[U+72A8]

Translingual
Traditional 犧
Shinjitai 犠
Simplified 牺

Han character

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

  1. sacrifice, give up
  2. sacrificial

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 705, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1117, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1822, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+72A7

Chinese
trad. 犧
simp. 牺
alternative forms 犠

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋral) : semantic 牛 (“ox”) + phonetic 羲 (OC *hŋral).

Etymology

Cognate with 儀 (OC *ŋral, “ceremony; appearance”). See there for more.

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) III
Fanqie 許羈切
Baxter xje
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 hei1
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/

Definitions

犧

  1. (historical) pure-colored sacrificial animal
  2. sacrifice

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

 犠

Kyūjitai

 犧

Kanji
犧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 犠)

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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: Hán Việt readings: hy[1][2][3], hi[4]
犧: Nôm readings: hi[4]

  1. chữ Hán form of hi (“certain types of sacrifice”).

Compounds

References
  1. Trần (1999).
  2. Nguyễn (1974).
  3. Thiều Chửu (1942).
  4. Trần (2004).
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