祭
jìZhài HSK7

sacrifice to

祭 jì frequency
sacrifice verb
to offer a sacrifice to gods or ancestors

每逢重要节日，村里的老人都会聚在一起祭祖。

měi féng zhòng​yào jié​rì, cūn​lǐ de lǎo​rén dōu huì jù zài​yī​qǐ jì zǔ.

On every important festival, the elders in the village gather to worship their ancestors.

ceremony verb
a religious ritual or a celebratory festival (often as a bound form)

他代表全体学生参加了今年的春祭活动。

tā dài​biǎo quán​tǐ xué​sheng cān​jiā le jīn​nián de chūn jì huó​dòng.

He represented all the students in this year's spring sacrificial ceremony.

wield magic verb
to recite an incantation to activate or use a magic weapon in classical literature

道士口中念念有词，猛地祭出了一道灵符。

dào​shì kǒu​zhōng niàn​niàn​yǒu​cí, měng​de jì chū le yī dào líng fú.

The Taoist priest muttered some incantations and suddenly brandished a magic charm.

祭 Zhài
Zhai proper name
the surname Zhai

祭先生是位著名的历史学家。

Zhài xiān​sheng shì wèi zhù​míng de lì​shǐ​xué​jiā.

Mr. Zhai is a famous historian.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,782nd most common 48.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,302nd most common 12.0 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.94 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
11.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+796D

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