Kanji
鹿
N1
11 strokes
Grade 4
freq #957
deer
On'yomi (音読み)
ロク
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
しか、 か
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
牡鹿
おじか
buck (male deer)
馬鹿
ばか
idiot; moron
大角鹿
おおつのじか
giant fallow deer (extinct)
鼠鹿
ねずみじか
chevrotain (Tragulidae spp.); mouse deer
口白鹿
くちじろじか
Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris); white-lipped deer
鹿垣
しがき
simple deer-hunting blind (horizontal branches and brushwood)
神鹿
しんろく
deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)
鹿子
かこ
deer; fawn
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
鹿
しか
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
馬鹿らしい
ばからしい
absurd; foolish
紅葉に鹿
もみじにしか
match made in heaven; perfect match
馬鹿は風邪を引かない
ばかはかぜをひかない
stupid people don't catch colds
馬鹿と天才は紙一重
ばかとてんさいはかみひとえ
there is but a fine line between genius and insanity
桜切る馬鹿、梅切らぬ馬鹿
さくらきるばか、うめきらぬばか
only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees
馬鹿さ加減
ばかさかげん
extent of (one's) foolishness; degree of stupidity
猪鹿蝶
いのしかちょう
the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring meld)
鹿猿
しかざる
earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)
鹿の子編み
かのこあみ
moss stitch; pique
Example sentences
森（もり）の中（なか）ではあまり鹿（しか）を見（み）かけなかった。
We didn't see many deer in the forest.
鹿（しか）は良（よ）い獲物（えもの）だ。
Deer are good game.
彼（かれ）は文字（もじ）どおりのばかだ。
He is a real fool.
彼（かれ）はばかだ。
He is foolish.