殉 - xùn - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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殉

to die for one's country

to die together in the name of love; to sacrifice oneself for love

to die for one's religion

to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)

to die in the line of duty

to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)

to bury sth along with the dead; sacrificial grave goods

to die for a just cause

to sacrifice oneself in a just cause; a victim of a disaster

to die as in the line of duty (idiom)

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