鼠
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) rat; mouse
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Wiktionary
- 1.rat; mouse; any member of the superfamily Muroidea, rodent
- 2.Rat (first of the Chinese zodiac signs)
- 3.scrofula; scrofulous
- 4.to sneak; to go stealthily
- 5.to steal
- 6.which
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a mouse or rat. In the seal script form, which is inherited in the regular script, the upper component resembling 臼 (jiù) 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 (homophonous to 癙 (OC *nhaʔ) "painful, suffering", which is in the same phonetic series and may be related to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *na (“ill, pain, sore, ache, difficult, evil spirit”)) 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. STEDT, on the other hand, compares 鼠 (OC *hljaʔ) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-jəw-n (“rat; rabbit; hare”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
窮鼠囓狸。
A cornered rat will bite a cat.
要不要買個無線鼠標呢？
Should I buy a wireless mouse?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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