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 (=麤)
+4 (=麤)
+5 (=麃)
+6
+7 (=麟)
+8
+9 (= -> )
+10
+11 (= -> )
+12
+13 (=麖)
+14
+17 (= -> )
+20
+22 (= -> )

Kanji

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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