Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 犠

犠

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Meaning

 sacrifice, scapegoat

Pronunciation

 GI

Explanation

 Left: cow 牛, right: morality, justice 義 (Ìf the sheep 羊 is killed by a hand 手 with a halberd 戈, is that justice?)

Mnemonic

Cows 牛 and sheep 羊 turn by me 我 (= the hand 手 at a halberd 戈) into: sacrifices.

Radicals

牛 cow(Shows a head of a cow with only one horn.)
義 righteousness
羊 sheep(Picture of the face of a sheep with two horns.)
我 I, myself
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Vocabulary

犠牲者 ぎせいしゃ victim, martyr
犠牲 ぎせい sacrifice

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