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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Hakka

Hanzi

鼠 (POJ chhú, Guangdong tsh'u³ [Meixian], ts'u³ [Bao'an, Siyan, Hong Kong], ch'u³ [Hailu, Kwangtung], su³ [Dongguan], Hagfa Pinyim cu3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

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Kanji

鼠 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mouse, rat, other similar rodent

Readings

• Go'on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: ねずみ (nezumi), ねず (nezu), ね (ne)

Compounds

• 鼠色 (ねずみいろ, nezumi iro): (UK) grey, (US) gray
• 鼠衣 (ねずみごろも, nezumigoromo): simple grey clerical robes
• 鼠食 (ねずみくい, nezumikui): something that has been chewed on by mice or rats
• 鼠穴 (ねずみあな, nezumiana): a mousehole, a rathole

Etymology 1

鼠 (mouse)	鼠 (rat)
鼠 (Muroidae: a common vole)	鼠（鼠色） grey

Originally a compound of 根 (ne, “'root', more specifically signifying somewhere hidden away”) +‎ 住み (sumi, “stem noun form of verb 住む (sumu), "to live in a place, to reside"”), meaning roughly "one who lives in hidden places". The sumi changes to zumi due to rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ne̞zɯᵝmi]

Noun

鼠 (hiragana ねずみ, katakana ネズミ, romaji nezumi)

1. (zoology) a mouse, a rat
2. general term for members of superfamily Muroidea, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
3. short for 鼠色 (nezumi iro): the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour

Usage notes

Japanese does not generally distinguish between mice and rats, and both are commonly called nezumi. If a distinction is needed, speakers may use the adjectives 大きい (ōkii, “large”) or 小さい (chīsai, “small”), or may use the word マウス (mausu, borrowed from either German or English).

As with many biology terms, this word is often spelled in katakana.

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.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ne̞zɯᵝ]

Noun

鼠 (hiragana ねず, romaji nezu)

1. a mouse, a rat

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ne̞]

Noun

鼠 (hiragana ね, romaji ne)

1. a mouse, a rat

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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
• 松鼠 (sōngshǔ): squirrel

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼠 (thử)