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However, the Chinese characters of Qilin  and  both carry the Chinese ""deer"" radical , suggesting that they were conceived of as a deer like animal, or perhaps a kind of antelope.

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As the lede states, the characters in qilin can also be written with the ""horse"" radical 馬 (maybe a more recent, less traditional variant, but this would have to be addressed, and sourced).
The giraffe is also ""conceived of as a deer-like animal"" in Chinese, in fact even more explicitly than the qilin. The word for ""giraffe"", 长颈鹿, means ""long-necked deer"".
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