Radical 198

Radical 198 or radical deer (鹿部) meaning "deer" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 104 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

鹿 is also the 194th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Kanji
As an isolated Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan. It was added because it is the first character in 鹿 (Kagoshima).