子鹿 kojika Fawn

子鹿 is a fawn, a young deer. The word can also be written 小鹿 or 仔鹿.

The Japanese word 子鹿 meaning "Fawn" is composed of the kanji 子 (read ko) meaning "child" and 鹿 (read shika) meaning "deer". Together they are read kojika, because the sounds change where the characters meet: 鹿 shika becomes jika after 子.

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