The village sits at the northern foot of Mount Hua.
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usage
Almost always appears as 山麓 'mountain foot' or with a directional prefix (北麓 'northern foot', 南麓 'southern foot'). Rarely stands alone in modern Chinese.
memory
The character is 鹿 (deer) sitting under 林 (forest) - picture deer grazing in the wooded foothills below a mountain. The 鹿 also gives the sound (lù).
鹿 depicts a deer in profile with antlers and slender legs. As radical it anchors 麓 by sound (lù exact) and hints at the place where deer roam - wooded foothills below the peaks. The most pictorial radical in the entry.
林 (two trees together) sits on top, both phonetic and semantic. Sound (lín drifted to lù) hints faintly while the visual signals trees - exactly what covers the lower slopes of a mountain. Wooded foothills in two strokes of meaning.
