鼠

See also 鼡, and 臼

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鼠 (radical 208 鼠+0, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X女卜女 (HXVYV), four-corner 7771₇)

1. rat, mouse, rodent
2. KangXi radical 208

References

• KangXi: page 1527, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48390
• Dae Jaweon: page 2063, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4772, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F20

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鼠 (Yale syu2)

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Japanese

Kanji

鼠

Readings

• On: そ (so), しょ (sho)
• Kun: ねずみ (nezumi)

Noun

鼠 (katakana ネズミ, romaji nezumi)

1. mouse; rat
2. dark grey colour

Usage notes

The Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac is not written with this kanji. The Japanese word meaning the Year of the Rat is 子年.

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Korean

Hanja

鼠
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 서 (revised: seo, McCune-Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)

• Name (hangeul): 쥐 서()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鼠 (pinyin shǔ (shu3), Wade-Giles shu³)

Compounds

• 老鼠 (lǎoshǔ): mouse; rat
• 袋鼠 (dàishǔ): kangaroo
• 小袋鼠 (xiǎo dàishǔ): wallaby; joey
• 捕鼠器 (bǔshǔqì): mousetrap
• 鼠標, 鼠标 (shǔ biāo): mouse (computer input device)
• 黄鼠狼 (huángshǔláng): weasel

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼠 (thử)