贄: sacrificial offering

sacrificial offering

18 strokesNames & literary · Rare kanji (1級 range)in 4 words here

Readings

シ

Kun

にえ

Mostly 生贄 (いけにえ, sacrifice); 贄 (にえ) alone is an offering to the gods; 早贄 is a shrike's impaled prey.

生贄いけにえsacrifice

生け贄いけにえsacrifice

贄にえoffering to the gods

早贄はやにえprey impaled by a shrike

昔むかし、村むらでは嵐あらしを鎮しずめるために生贄いけにえを捧ささげたという。

They say that in the old days the village offered a sacrifice to calm the storms.

神かみへの贄にえとして、収穫しゅうかくした米こめが祭壇さいだんに供そなえられた。

The harvested rice was laid on the altar as an offering to the gods.

畑はたけの木きの枝えだに、モズの早贄もずのはやにえが刺ささっていた。

A shrike's impaled prey was stuck on a branch of a tree by the field.