"The characters in the [Japanese] word baka, which mean 'horse deer,' are used for their phonetic values alone. The word comes from the Sanskrit moha - ignorance, via the Chinese măhū."
wow, that website is off the chain! i could spend hours there. and i thought that the kanji for "baka" was horse and deer because if you couldn't tell the two apart, then you deserved to be called baka...yaro!
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