牲 Offering

Radical Combination

• 牛

  Cow
• 生

  Life

Meaning

Primary

Offering

Alternative

Sacrifice

Mnemonic

If you take a cow's life you're turning it into an offering. In the old days, cows' lives were given to the gods as offerings pretty often.

Hints

Picture yourself offering the cow's life up to the god(s). It's a good thing we don't actually have to do this anymore, you think.

Readings

On’yomi

せい

Kun’yomi

None

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You prepare the offering with your holy blue saber (せい). Normally this would be gruesome, but your saber glows and the cow's life shoots up into the sky without you laying a hand on it.

Hints

Thanks to the mercy of your saber, the offering is quick and painless. A normal saber, however, would have cut that cow to bits. Like, really just wrecked it. Good thing we didn't make you think about that, huh?