殉
xùn

die for cause

殉 xùn
bury with verb
to be buried along with the deceased as a human sacrifice

在某些古代文化中，仆人常被要求为主人殉葬。

zài mǒu​xiē gǔ​dài wén​huà zhōng, pú​rén cháng bèi yāo​qiú wèi zhǔ​rén xùn​zàng.

In some ancient cultures, servants were often required to be buried with their masters.

die for verb
to sacrifice one's life for a cause, country, or ideal

他为了维护正义而壮烈殉道。

tā wèi le wéi​hù zhèng​yì ér zhuàng​liè xùn​dào.

He died a heroic martyr for the sake of justice.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,303rd most common 6.77 per million
Movie subtitles
3,120th most common 2.86 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.878 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6B89

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)