鼠

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/鼠

Glyph origin
– a mouse or rat. In the seal script form, which is inherited in the regular script, the upper component resembling 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.

Etymology
Unclear. reconstructs the Minimal Old Chinese as *nhaʔ (homophonous to "painful, suffering", which is in the same phonetic series and may be related to 🇨🇬) and compares to the following:

STEDT, on the other hand, compares to 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) rat; mouse; any member of the superfamily, rodent
 * 2) Rat first of the Chinese zodiac signs
 * 3)  scrofula; scrofulous
 * 4)  to sneak; to go stealthily
 * 1)  scrofula; scrofulous
 * 2)  to sneak; to go stealthily

Kanji

 * 1) mouse, rat, other similar rodent

Etymology 1
Originally a compound of, meaning roughly “one who lives in hidden places”.

Noun

 * 1) a mouse or a rat
 * 2) general term for members of superfamily, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
 * 3) short for : the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour
 * 1) general term for members of superfamily, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
 * 2) short for : the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour
 * 1) general term for members of superfamily, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
 * 2) short for : the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour
 * 1) general term for members of superfamily, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
 * 2) short for : the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour
 * 1) general term for members of superfamily, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
 * 2) short for : the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour
 * 1) short for : 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 or, or may use the word.
 * Note that, although the Japanese term  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.
 * Note that, although the Japanese term  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.

Etymology 2
of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Noun

 * 1) a mouse, a rat

Etymology 3
of nezumi. Used in some compounds.

Pronunciation

 * The pitch accent is determined by the entire compounded term.

Noun

 * 1) a mouse, a rat

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Compound of 🇰🇲

Noun

 * 1) mouse, rat