Radical 198

鹿
Radical 198 (U+2FC5)
鹿 (U+9E7F) "deer"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lù
Bopomofo:ㄌㄨˋ
Wade–Giles:lu4
Cantonese Yale:luk6
Jyutping:luk6
Japanese Kana:ロク roku (on'yomi)
しか shika (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:록 rok
Hán-Việt:lộc, lê
Names
Japanese name(s):鹿/しか shika
(Left) 鹿偏/しかへん shikahen
Hangul:사슴 saseum
Stroke order animation

Radical 198 or radical deer (鹿部) meaning "deer" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 104 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

鹿 is also the 194th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 鹿
+2 麀 麁 (=麤) 麂
+4 麃 麄 (=麤)
+5 麅 (=麃) 麆 麇 麈
+6 麉 麊 麋
+7 麌 麍 麎 麏 麐 (=麟)
+8 麑 麒 麓 麔 麕 麖 麗
+9 麘 (=香 -> 香) 麙 麚 麛
+10 麜 麝
+11 麞 (=獐 -> 犬)
+12 麟
+13 麠 (=麖)
+14 麡
+17 麢 (=羚 -> 羊)
+20 麣
+22 麤 (=粗 -> 米)

Sinogram

As an isolated Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1]

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[2] It was added because it is the first character in 鹿 (Kagoshima).[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  2. ^ a b "小学校の必修漢字に都道府県名20字追加 20年度にも". 朝日新聞デジタル. 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

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