鹿克思

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (鹿克思)		鹿	克	思
simp. #(鹿克思)		鹿	克	思

Etymology

Pun on 馬克思／马克思 (Mǎkèsī, “Marx”), changing the first character 馬／马 (mǎ, “horse”) to 鹿 (lù, “deer”) to show that it appears as Marxism but actually isn't. See also the idiom 指鹿為馬／指鹿为马 (zhǐlùwéimǎ, “to deliberately misrepresent”, literally “to point to a deer and call it a horse”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lùkèsī

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄙ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lùkèsī
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lùkèsih
    • Wade–Giles: Lu⁴-kʻo⁴-ssŭ¹
    • Yale: Lù-kè-sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Luhkehsy
    • Palladius: Лукэсы (Lukɛsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

Noun

鹿克思

1. (～主義) (communism, slang, derogatory) non-Marxist or anti-Marxist theory which disguises itself as Marxism