葦鹿

Japanese

Kanji in this term
葦	鹿
あし Jinmeiyō	しか Grade: S
Irregular

Alternative forms

海驢

Etymology

葦 (ashi, “common reed”) +‎ 鹿 (shika, “deer”), roughly "a deer that lives where reeds grow". The sequence shishi was simplified to shi by haplology.

Pronunciation

(Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) あしか [àshíká] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA^(key): [a̠ɕi̥ka̠]

Noun

葦鹿 (hiragana あしか, katakana アシカ, rōmaji ashika)

a sea lion

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