鹿
Meanings
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- 1.deer
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Wiktionary
- 1.deer (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn; 頭／头 m)
- 2.political power
- 3.a surname
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a deer. Current form is highly abstracted – legs have transformed to 比 – note grouping of front and rear legs, which are bent – head has transformed to middle component (similar to 凸/曲), while antlers on top and extended lip/mouth on left transformed into 广. This transformation occurred during seal characters. Contrast the very different development of 馬 (“horse”), and the transformation in 廌 (as in 薦), which has the head of 鹿 but the legs of 馬 (灬). Uncertain, though possibly Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Northern Naga *gjuk (“deer, sambar”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *g-rjuk (French, 1983); also according to French, Benedict relates the Tibeto-Burman item to Gurung [script needed] (gju, “sheep”), but this Gurung item may instead be related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luk (“sheep”) (Schuessler, 2007). Within Chinese, Sagart (1999) relates this to 角 (OC *kroːɡ, “horn”). Baxter and Sagart (2014; 2020) compares this to Langjia Buyang /ma⁰ lɔk⁸/. Note also Nùng klook (“deer”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
马比鹿强。
Horses are stronger than deer.
射手打死了鹿。
The archer killed the deer.
他射了鹿一箭。
He shot an arrow at the deer.
我跟着鹿的踪迹。
I followed the deer's tracks.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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