指鹿為馬 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 指鹿为马 zhǐlùwéimǎ ㄓˇ ㄌㄨˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄇㄚˇ making a deer out to be a horse (idiom) deliberate misrepresentation Character by character 指(zhǐ)finger 鹿(lù)deer 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 馬(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0