麈 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「鹿」
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- On
- シュ・ス
- Kun
- おおじか
- Meaning
- a great deer; a whisk
Origin
Deer 鹿 with 主, a master, as phonetic: the great deer that leads the herd; also the whisk made from its tail.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 麈尾しゅび
a priest’s whisk
- 麈おおじか
a great deer
Example
僧が麈尾を手にする。
The monk takes up the whisk.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)