Kangxi #198

鹿 deer

10 characters written with the default form 鹿 — deer radical (Kangxi #198, lù).

orange strokes = the radical inside the character whole character indigo = filed under this radical by convention

鹿 lù HSK 7-9 #3,939

麝 shè #46,340

musk deer (Moschus, especially Moschus moschiferus) / musk (the secretion of the musk deer)

麋 mí #65,370

Père David's deer; elk (Elaphurus davidianus) / (proper noun) surname Mi

foot of a mountain / foothills

a mythical one-horned beast said to gore the guilty in legal disputes / variant of 豸 used in 解廌 (xièzhì), the justice-beast

(in 麒麟) qilin; Chinese unicorn

(in 麒麟) qilin, a mythical auspicious beast

muntjac (small barking deer) / suede (from 麂皮)

(classical) to weed; to till / (classical, read páo) a roe deer

(archaic) a large deer (a kind of elk), whose tail-hair was made into fly-whisks / (archaic) short for 麈尾, a fly-whisk made from its tail