鹿 – deer

11 strokesTaught in grade 4#957 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 鹿 means deer. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ロク (roku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is しか、か (shika, ka). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 鹿 (no. 198).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ロク	roku
Kun’yomi	しか	shika
Kun’yomi	か	ka

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 鹿 (Kangxi radical 198). Components: 比・广.

Words using 鹿

馬鹿ばかidiot

Example sentences

こんな荒れ模様の日に外出するなんて君は馬鹿だよ。

You are an idiot to go out in this weather.

Tatoeba #217362

なんという馬鹿なことだろう。

What a piece of folly!

Tatoeba #198852

Kanji with the same radical

麗麓

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.