Radical 198

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

鹿
← 197 Radical 198 (U+2FC5) 199 →
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

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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

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)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/鹿

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]