牺牲

牺牲 xīshēng in a sentence

Sacrifice one's life

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

牺牲 (xīshēng) means Sacrifice one's life. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

许多人为此付出了 牺牲 。

Xǔduō rén wèi cǐ fùchū le xīshēng.

Many people made sacrifices for this.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牺牲

为了这个项目,他 牺牲 了所有假期。

Wèile zhège xiàngmù, tā xīshēng le suǒyǒu jiàqī.

He sacrificed all his holidays for this project.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牺牲

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How is 牺牲 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 牺牲 (xīshēng, "Sacrifice one's life"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 牺牲 an HSK word?

Yes — 牺牲 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 牺牲 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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