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鹿
JLPT N1 SL4 11 strokes Frequency: #957

Meanings

Deer

Radicals

鹿

Decomposition

⿸广⿱?比

Etymology

Pictographic: A deer with an antlered head, two legs, and a tail

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left
2 horizontal bottom-to-top
3 diagonal top-to-bottom
4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
5 vertical right-to-left
6 vertical top-to-bottom
7 horizontal bottom-to-top
8 horizontal bottom-to-top
9 corner bottom-to-top
10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 curve bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ロク roku
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ka
しか shika

Words Using This Kanji

130 words total
Other (20 words)
鹿垣 ししがき

branch-twined hedge around a field to keep out wild boars and deer

尾白鹿 おじろじか

white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

馬鹿でかい ばかでかい

enormous

神鹿 しんろく

deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)

鹿木 しかぎ

simple deer-hunting blind (horizontal branches and brushwood)

鹿猪 しかいのしし

babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa)

馬鹿も休み休み言え ばかもやすみやすみいえ

stop talking nonsense

アメリカ赤鹿 アメリカあかしか

elk (Cervus canadensis)

口白鹿 くちじろじか

Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris)

アメリカ沼鹿 アメリカぬまじか

marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

バラシンガ鹿 バラシンガじか

barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii)

鹿の子編み かのこあみ

moss stitch

鹿猿 しかざる

earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)

猪鹿蝶 いのしかちょう

the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring meld)

馬鹿さ加減 ばかさかげん

extent of (one's) foolishness

馬鹿と天才は紙一重 ばかとてんさいはかみひとえ

there is but a fine line between genius and insanity

馬鹿は風邪を引かない ばかはかぜをひかない

stupid people don't catch colds

紅葉に鹿 もみじにしか

match made in heaven

馬鹿みたい ばかみたい

foolish

先生と言われるほどの馬鹿でなし せんせいといわれるほどのばかでなし

I don't fall for flattery