鹿
deer
11 strokes. Taught in grade 4. Newspaper frequency rank 957.
Readings
- か (kun reading): 馬鹿 (ばか) idiot; 鹿児島 (かごしま) Kagoshima (city, prefecture)
- しか (kun reading): 鹿 (しか) deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); 鹿肉 (しかにく) venison
- ロク (on reading): 白鹿 (はくろく) white deer; 神鹿 (しんろく) deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)
Components
Kanji containing 鹿
- 麗 lovely
- 麓 foot of a mountain
- 麁 rough
- 塵 dust
- 漉 manufacture paper
- 麈 moose
- 麋 reindeer
- 轆 pulley
- 麌 stag
- 鏖 massacre
- 麑 fawn
- 麒 Chinese unicorn
- 麕 roe deer
- 麝 musk deer
- 麟 Chinese unicorn
Words using 鹿
- 馬鹿 (ばか) idiot
- 鹿児島 (かごしま) Kagoshima (city, prefecture)
- 鹿島アントラーズ (かしまアントラーズ) Kashima Antlers (Japanese pro soccer team)
- 鹿児島大学 (かごしまだいがく) Kagoshima University
- 馬鹿の一つ覚え (ばかのひとつおぼえ) one who knows little often repeats it
- 鹿 (しか) deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon)
- 鹿肉 (しかにく) venison
- 牡鹿 (おじか) buck (male deer)
- 小鹿 (こじか) fawn
- 鹿せんべい (しかせんべい) rice crackers for feeding the deer (in Nara)
- 白鹿 (はくろく) white deer
- 神鹿 (しんろく) deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)
- 鹿野苑 (ろくやおん) Magadaava (where Buddha delivered his first sermon)
- 鹿砦 (ろくさい) abatis
- 馴鹿 (じゅんろく) reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
- 鹿狩り (ししがり) hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)
- 鹿垣 (ししがき) branch-twined hedge around a field to keep out wild boars and deer
- 鹿垣 (しがき) simple deer-hunting blind (horizontal branches and brushwood)
- 鹿踊り (ししおどり) deer dance
116 words in all.