鹿

鹿 (radical 198, 鹿+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈X心 (IXP), four-corner 0021₁, composition ⿸⿸广⿻コ⿰丨丨比)

1. Kangxi radical #198, ⿅.

• Index:Chinese radical/鹿
• 塵

• KangXi: page 1508, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47586
• Dae Jaweon: page 2036, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4727, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9E7F

Historical forms of the character 鹿
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a deer. Current form is highly abstracted – legs have transformed to 比 – note grouping of front and rear legs, which are bent – head has transformed to middle component (similar to 凸/曲), while antlers on top and extended lip/mouth on left transformed into 广. This transformation occurred during seal characters.

Contrast the very different development of 馬 (“horse”), and the transformation in 𢊁 (as in 薦), which has the head of 鹿 but the legs of 馬 (灬).

鹿

1. deer
2. A surname​.

• “Entry #8111”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. deer

• Go-on: ろく (roku)
• Kan-on: ろく (roku)
• Kun: か (ka, 鹿, Jōyō, uncommon); しか (shika, 鹿, Jōyō); かせぎ (kasegi, 鹿); かのしし (kanoshishi, 鹿); しし (shishi, 鹿)

From Old Japanese.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠]

鹿 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka)

1. (archaic) deer

/seka/ → /sika/

Originally a compound of 夫 (se, “male”) +‎ 鹿 (ka, “deer”), in contrast to 女鹿 (meka, “female deer”, archaic).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) しか [shìká] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • (Tokyo) しか​ [shìkáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕi̥ka̠]

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鹿 (hiragana しか, rōmaji shika)

1. deer

   奈 (な)良 (ら)公 (こう)園 (えん)には鹿 (しか)しかいない。

   Nara kōen ni wa shika shika inai.

   There is nothing but deer in Nara Park.

• → English: sika deer

From the resemblance to a 桛木 (kasegi, “cross-shaped spindle; a branching point in a tree”)

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠se̞ɡʲi]

鹿 (hiragana かせぎ, rōmaji kasegi)

1. (archaic) deer
   • 1212: Hōjōki

     山鳥 (やまどり)のほろと鳴 (な)くを聞 (き)きても、父 (ちち)か母 (はは)かと疑 (うたが)ひ、峰 (みね)のかせぎの近 (ちか)くなれたるにつけても、世 (よ)に遠 (とお)ざかるほどを知 (し)る。

     Yamadori no horo to naku o kikite mo, chichi ka haha ka to utagahi, mine no kasegi no chikaku naretaru ni tsukete mo, yo ni tōzakaru hodo oshiru.

     Hearing the horo call of the mountain pheasant, wondering if it were my father or mother [calling from beyond the grave], and seeing how the deer on the ridge are so tame that they come close by, all of it shows me how far away I am from the world.

Originally a compound of 鹿 (ka, “deer”) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 肉 (しし, “meat, flesh”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠no̞ɕiɕi]

• 鹿の肉

鹿 (hiragana かのしし, rōmaji kanoshishi)

1. (archaic) deer
2. deer meat: venison

From 肉 (shishi, “meat, flesh”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) し​し [shíꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiɕi]

• 獣, 猪

鹿 (hiragana しし, rōmaji shishi)

1. (archaic) a beast (used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer)
2. short for 猪武者 (inoshishi musha): a reckless warrior
3. short for 鹿狩り (shishi-gari): a deer hunter
4. (slang) a female attendant at a bathhouse or hot spring
5. (slang, archaic) a female prostitute at a bathhouse or hot spring

The beast sense is more commonly spelled 獣.

From Middle Chinese 鹿 (luwk, “deer”). Compare modern Min Nan reading lo̍k.

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ろく [ròkú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɾo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

鹿 (hiragana ろく, rōmaji roku)

1. deer
2. venison or wild boar meat

• Ichiko, Teiji (1212) Hōjōki (Shintei), Iwanami Shoten, published 1989, →ISBN
• Nishio, Minoru (1957) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei: Hōjōki, Tsurezuregusa, Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

鹿 • (rok, nok) (hangeul 록, 녹, revised rok, nok, McCune–Reischauer rok, nok, Yale lok, nok)

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鹿 (lộc, lê)

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