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    5 months ago

    馬鹿ばか • (baka)
    1 foolish, idiotic, stupid, ridiculous

    The characters 馬鹿 (literally “horse + deer”) are ateji (当て字), probably chosen as an allusion to Literary Chinese 指鹿為馬 (“to deliberately misinterpret and invert right and wrong”, literally “to point to a deer and call it a horse”)