Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

麓: foot of a mountain

N1 (our estimate)19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

鹿 carries the meaning · 林 is drawn in

19 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ロクroku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 山麓さんろくfoot of a mountain; base of a mountain
  • 岳麓がくろくfoot of Mount Fuji

ふもとfumoto · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 麓ふもとfoot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Prance through the forest! Imagine a magnificent stag with branching antlers peering through the trees.”
More in the 鹿 deer story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
林

Also built on grove (林)

鹿

Also built on deer (鹿)

All 2

Also read ロク

6 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lù

Same form: 麓 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
麓 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
麓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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