鼠

鼠 (radical 208, 鼠+0, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X女卜女 (HXVYV), four-corner 7771₇, composition ⿱臼⿲⿺𠄌⺀⿺𠄌⺀㇂(GJK) or ⿱臼⿲⿺𠄌𠄠⿺𠄌𠄠㇂(HT))

1. Kangxi radical #208, ⿏.

• Index:Chinese radical/鼠
• 𠏙, 𦡔, 𣜌, 𤢡, 𥣅, 𧒑, 𨭿

• 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

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

Pictogram (象形) – a mouse or rat. In the seal script form, which is inherited in the regular script, the upper component resembling 臼 represents the open mouth of a rat with teeth displayed, and the lower component represents the two feet of a rat on the left and a tail on the right.

Unclear. Schuessler (2007) reconstructs the Minimal Old Chinese as *nhaʔ and compares to the following:

• Nyah Kur [script needed] (hnáaʔ, “small squirrel; tree shrew”);
• Proto-Mon-Khmer *kn₁(i)ʔ (“rat; mouse”): Old Mon kni' > Mon ဂၞိ (nɔeˀ), Proto-Bahnaric *knɛː;
• Proto-Kam-Sui *hnu³ (“rat”): Southern Kam not, Sui hnoc.

鼠

1. rat; mouse; rodent

   老鼠  ―  lǎoshǔ  ―  mouse, rat

2. Rat (first of the Chinese zodiac signs)

   我屬鼠。 / 我属鼠。  ―  Wǒ shǔ shǔ.  ―  My zodiac sign is the Rat.

3. cowardly; timid
4. (traditional Chinese medicine) scrofula; scrofulous
5. (Cantonese) to sneak; to go stealthily

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mouse, rat, other similar rodent

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

鼠 (nezumi): a mouse, as a smaller example of a nezumi.	鼠 (nezumi): a rat, as a larger example of a nezumi.
鼠 (nezumi): a member of family Muroidea: a common vole.	鼠 (nezumi) → 鼠色 (nezumi-iro, literally “mouse color”): the color grey.

Originally a compound of 根 (ne, “root”, more specifically signifying somewhere hidden away) +‎ 住み (sumi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem 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 as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ねずみ [nèzúmí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ne̞zɨᵝmʲi]

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

1. a mouse or a rat
   • 1993 November 15 [Aug 25 1989], “○動どう物ぶつのお医い者しゃさん　登とう場じょう人じん物ぶつ紹しょう介かい [○ The Veterinarian: Character Intro]”, in 動物のお医者さん [The Veterinarian], volume 2 (fiction), 44th edition, Tokyo: Hakusensha, →ISBN, page 7:

     二 (に)階 (かい)堂 (どう)：ハムテルの友 (ゆう)人 (じん)で獣 (じゅう)医 (い)の卵 (たまご)。だがネズミに弱 (こわ)いという弱 (じゃく)点 (てん)がある。

     Nikaidō: Hamuteru no yūjin de jūi no tamago. Daga nezumi ni kowai to iu jakuten ga aru.

     Nikaidō: Hamuteru’s friend, who’s also a future veterinarian. One of his weaknesses, however, is being frightened of rats and mice.

   • 1999 May 25, “イビル・ラット [Evil Rat]”, in Booster 2, Konami:

     どんな物 (もの)にでもかじりつく、行 (ぎょう)儀 (ぎ)の悪 (わる)い野 (の)ネズミ。

     Donna mono ni demo kajiritsuku, gyōgi no warui nonezumi.

     A feral rat evil-doer that can bite through anything.

   • 1999 September 23, “鎧よろいネズミ [Armored Rat]”, in Vol.5, Konami:

     鎧 (よろい)のようにかたい毛 (け)で体 (からだ)を守 (まも)ることができるネズミ。

     Yoroi no yō ni katai ke de karada o mamoru koto ga dekiru nezumi.

     A rat capable of defending itself with a coat that functions as armor.

   • 2007 November 20 [Mar 25 2006], Fujiko F. Fujio, “「スパルタ式しきにが手てこくふく錠じょう」と「にが手てタッチバトン」 [“Extreme Conquer-Your-Weakness Pill” and “Weakness Touch Baton”]”, in ドラえもん＋プラス [Doraemon+], volume 5 (fiction), 4th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 11–12:

     ごめんください。

     Gomen kudasai.

     May I come in?

     ネズミ年 (どし)の人 (ひと)ですか？

     Nezumidoshi no hito desu ka?

     Were you born in a Rat year?

     サル年 (どし)ですが。

     Sarudoshi desu ga.

     I was born in a Monkey year.

     じゃ　おはいりください。

     Ja ohairi kudasai.

     Please come in then.

     わたくし、根 (ね)住 (ずみ)ともうします。

     Watakushi, Nezumi to mōshimasu.

     But my name is Nezumi.

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

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, 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.

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.[3][1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ね​ず [néꜜzù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ne̞zɨᵝ]

鼠 (hiragana ねず, rōmaji nezu)

1. a mouse, a rat

Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds.[3][1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ne̞]
• The pitch accent is determined by the entire compounded term.

鼠 (hiragana ね, rōmaji ne)

1. a mouse, a rat

鼠 (eumhun 쥐 서 (jwi seo))

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Compound of 親 (っゑ, qwe, “parent”) +‎ ん (“n”, reduced genitive particle) +‎ 人 (ちゅ, -chu, “person”)

鼠 (hiragana っゑんちゅ, romaji 'wenchu, hiragana ゑんちゅ, romaji wenchu, hiragana えんちゅ, romaji enchu)

1. mouse, rat

鼠 (thử)

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