麓 means “foot of a mountain”

ふもと · fumoto

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ふもと

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ロク

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 19 strokes

The story

Woods (林) above a deer (鹿): picture deer grazing in the forest where the slopes begin. 麓 is the foot of a mountain: 富士山の麓 is the lake and forest country around the base of Mount Fuji, and 山麓 is the formal word for the same.

Used in 麓 (fumoto, foot of a mountain) and 山麓 (sanroku, foot of a mountain)

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