"Sacrificial" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 牺牲的 | sacrificial |  | |
| 保护性的 | sacrificial | | |
| 牺牲品 | xī shēng pǐn | sacrificial victim / sb who is expendable / item sold at a loss |  |
| 祭典 | jì diǎn | sacrificial ceremony / religious festival | |
| 牺牲者 | xī shēng zhě | sb who sacrifices himself / sacrificial victim / sb who is expendable | |
| 垫背 | diàn bèi | to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate | |
| 主祭 | zhǔ jì | to perform the sacrificial rites at a funeral | |
| 祭礼 | jì lǐ | sacrificial offerings / worship / religious rite | |
| 越俎代庖 | yuè zǔ dài páo | lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom) / fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands | |
| 祭器 | jì qì | ritual dishes / sacrificial vessels | |
| 刀俎 | dāo zǔ | sacrificial knife and altar | |
| 牲 |  shēng | domestic animal / sacrificial animal | |
| 祝 | zhù | to pray for / to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc) / person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies | |
| 彝 | yí | (archaic) wine vessel / (archaic) sacrificial vessel / (literary) rule / convention | |
| 琏 | liǎn | sacrificial vessel used for grain offerings / also pr. [lian2] | |
| 犊 | dú | calf / sacrificial victim | |
| 饩 | xì | grain ration / sacrificial victim | |
| 鬯 | chàng | a kind of sacrificial wine used in ancient times | |
| 胙 | zuò | to grant or bestow / sacrificial flesh offered to the gods (old) / blessing / title of a sovereign (old) | |
| 铏 | xíng | soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / old variant of 硎[xing2] | |
| 糈 | xǔ | official pay / sacrificial rice | |
| 膟 | lu:4 | sacrificial flesh | |
| 执牛耳 | zhí niú ěr | to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony) | |
| 嶡 | jué | sacrificial vessel | |
| 脤 | shèn | sacrificial meat (raw) | |
| 鉶 | xíng | soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / variant of 硎, whetstone | |
| 棜 | yù | tray for carrying sacrificial meats | |
| 衈 | èr | the blood of a sacrificial fowl which was sprinkled on doors and vessels | |
| 彝器 | yí qì | sacrificial vessel | |
| 替罪羔羊 | tì zuì gāo yáng | scapegoat / sacrificial lamb / same as 替罪羊 | |
| 祀物 | sì wù | sacrificial objects | |
| 礼器 | lǐ qì | ritual object / sacrificial vessel | |
| 血盆大口 | xuè pén dà kǒu | bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom) / ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor | |
| 祭牲 | jì shēng | sacrificial animal | |
| 祭仪 | jì yí | sacrificial ceremony / sacrificial offering | |
| 太牢 | tài láo | (in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig) | |
| 牺牲车 | sacrificial trolley | | |
| 郊祀 | jiāo sì | pair of annual sacrificial ceremonies held by the emperor in ancient times: one in the southern suburbs of the capital (bringing offerings to Heaven) and another in the northern suburbs (with offerings to Earth) | |
| 三牲 | sān shēng | the three sacrificial animals (originally cow, sheep and pig / later pig, chicken and fish) | |
