鹿

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/鹿

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

Contrast the very different development of, and the transformation in (as in ), which has the head of 鹿 but the legs of 馬.

Etymology
, though possibly. Compare *gjuk "deer, sambar", from 🇨🇬 ; Also according to French, Benedict relates the Tibeto-Burman item to 🇨🇬, yet the Gurung item has an alternative explanation (compare 🇨🇬). relates this to. compares this to Langjia 🇨🇬.

Note also 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) deer
 * 2)  political power
 * 1)  political power

Synonyms




Kanji

 * 1) deer

Compounds

 * : sea lion
 * : moose
 * : serow
 * : babirusa
 * : venison
 * : musk deer
 * , : reindeer
 * : sika deer
 * : fool
 * : moose and deer
 * : moose
 * : abatis

Etymology 1
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From. Originally a compound of 🇰🇲, in contrast to.

First attested in the  of 720.

Noun

 * 1) deer

Idioms

 * : “someone chasing a deer doesn't see the mountain” → a metaphor for how someone who is fixed on a target can be oblivious to the challenges in the way

Etymology 2
From. Found in the , completed some time after 759.

Noun

 * 1)  deer

Derived terms

 * : Kanuma, Tochigi

Etymology 3
From. From the resemblance to a.

First attested in the  of 720.

Noun

 * 1)  deer
 * 2) * 1212: Hōjōki

Etymology 4
From. Originally a compound of 🇰🇲.

First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1)  deer
 * 2) deer meat: venison

Etymology 5
From, from. Cognate with.

First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1)  a beast
 * 2)  a reckless warrior
 * 3)  a deer hunter
 * 4)  a female attendant at a bathhouse or hot spring
 * 5)  a female prostitute at a bathhouse or hot spring

Usage notes

 * The beast sense is more commonly spelled.

Etymology 6
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading lo̍k.

Noun

 * 1) deer
 * 2) venison or wild boar meat

Etymology
From.