yīn

offer sacrifice

yīn
sacrifice to heaven
(bound form) an ancient ritual sacrifice to heaven involving the burning of animal parts, jade, and silk so that the smoke ascends to the sky
sacrifice
(bound form) to offer sacrifices in general

Frequency

Character
Written text
7,245th most common 0.041 per million
Word
Written text
0.004 per million

Details

Strokes
13
Unicode
U+798B

Sources