Sacrifice

"Sacrifice" in Japanese

犠牲

gisei

(human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing, offered to a deity)

生贄

ikenie

(human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing, offered to a deity)

捧げる

sasageru

((transitive) to offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity; (transitive) to offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity)

捧げる

sasageru

(to destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable)

犠牲にする

gisei ni suru

((transitive) to offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity; (transitive) to offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.