牲
shēng HSK6

sacrificial animal

牲 shēng
livestock noun
domestic animals raised for labor, food, or profit

农民们正忙着在后院里给几头牲口喂草。

nóng​mín men zhèng máng zhe zài hòu​yuàn lǐ gěi jǐ tóu shēng kǒu wèi cǎo.

The farmers are busy feeding grass to several head of livestock in the backyard.

sacrificial animal verb
animals slaughtered as an offering in a religious or ceremonial ritual

祭祀时通常会准备三牲。

jì​sì shí tōng​cháng huì zhǔn​bèi sān shēng.

Three types of livestock are usually prepared for sacrifices.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,582nd most common 62.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,536th most common 40.1 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.46 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
1.93 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7272

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