鼠

鼠 U+9F20, 鼠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F20 ← 鼟 [U+9F1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼡 → [U+9F21]

See also: 鼡 and 臼

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鼠 (Kangxi radical 208, 鼠+0, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹難女卜女 (HXVYV), four-corner 7771₇)

1. Kangxi radical #208, ⿏.

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		鼠
simp. #		鼠
alternative forms		鼡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鼠
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (鼠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鼠	*hljaʔ
癙	*hljaʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a mouse or rat.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): shǔ (shu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): sui³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhú
• Eastern Min (BUC): chṳ̄
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhú / chhír / chhí / sú / sír / sí
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tshy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shu³
    • Yale: shǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: sui³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: sui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suei⁵³/

Note: sui3 - colloquial.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu²
    • Yale: syú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhú
    • Hakka Romanization System: cu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cu³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰy³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Tainan, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhú
    • Tâi-lô: tshú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhuo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Tainan): /t͡sʰu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhír
    • Tâi-lô: tshír
    • IPA (Lukang): /t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kinmen): /t͡sʰɯ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Hsinchu, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhí
    • Tâi-lô: tshí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Yilan): /t͡sʰi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰi⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
    • Tâi-lô: sú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sír
    • Tâi-lô: sír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
    • Tâi-lô: sí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³/

Note:

• chhí/chhír/chhú - vernacular;
• sú/sír/sí - literary;
• chhú - literary (Taiwan).

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵tshy
    • MiniDict: tshy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tshr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰz̩³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 鼠
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʂu²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/ʂu²¹³/
	Tianjin	/ʂu¹³/ /su¹³/
	Jinan	/ʂu⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/ʃu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʂu⁵³/
	Xi'an	/fu⁵³/
	Xining	/fv̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵³/ /ʂu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fʰu⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕy⁴²/
	Chengdu	/su⁵³/
	Guiyang	/su⁴²/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵³/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹²/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰu²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/su⁵³/
	Pingyao	/sz̩ʷ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/su⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡sʰei³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰy³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕy⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/ɕy⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕy²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰu³¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʃʰu³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sy³⁵/
	Nanning	/sy³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/sy³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su⁵³/ /t͡sʰu⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡sʰy³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡sʰy²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡sʰɯ⁵³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/siu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: syoX

Rime
Character	鼠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舒吕切
Baxter	syoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɕiɔX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鼠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ syoX ›
Old Chinese	/*[l̥]aʔ/
English	rat
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼠
Reading #	1/1
No.	11801
Phonetic component	鼠
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*hljaʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鼠

1. rat; mouse; rodent

   老鼠  ―  lǎoshǔ  ―  mouse, rat

2. cowardly; timid
3. (traditional Chinese medicine) scrofula; scrofulous

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

鼠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mouse, rat, other similar rodent

Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan’yō-on: そ (so)
• Kun: ねずみ (nezumi), ねず (nezu), ね (ne)

Etymology 1

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

Kanji in this term
鼠
ねずみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Originally a compound of , meaning roughly “one who lives in hidden places”. The sumi changes to zumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

鼠(ねずみ) or 鼠(ネズミ) • (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, “mouse”, borrowed from either German or English).

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ネズミ.

Note that, although the Japanese term 子年 (​nezumidoshi, ​nedoshi) for The Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac does derive from this same nezumi term, it is not written with this 鼠 kanji.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 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

• 水畑鼠(みずはたねずみ) (mizuhata nezumi): the European water vole, Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris.
• 火鼠(ひねずみ) (hi nezumi): fire rat

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鼠
ねず Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Noun

鼠(ねず) • (nezu) 

1. a mouse, a rat

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 鼠子(ねずこ) (nezuko): alternate name for 黒檜(くろべ) (kurobe): , an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae

• 銀鼠(ぎんねず) (ginnezu): silver-grey

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
鼠
ね Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Noun

鼠(ね) • (ne) 

1. a mouse, a rat

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 子年(ねどし) (nedoshi): the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac

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Korean

Hanja

鼠 • (seo)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 서 (McCune–Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)
  • Name (hangeul): 쥐 서
    

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鼠 (thử)

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