犠牲 gisei Sacrifice

犠牲 is a sacrifice: what you give up for a person or a cause, or offer to a god. It is also said of the dead in a war or a disaster, and each one is a 犠牲者 (giseisha).

The Japanese word 犠牲 meaning "Sacrifice" is composed of the kanji 犠 (read gi) meaning "sacrifice" and 牲 (read sei) meaning "animal sacrifice; offering".

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