葦鹿

Japanese

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

Alternative forms

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)

  1. a sea lion
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