鼠
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(bound form) rat; mouse
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 鼠 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 鼠
- Common rank
- #845
- Unicode
- U+9F20
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 鼠 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A mouse, with two paws to the left and the tail to the right
Components 臼
? unknown part
How to remember it
mouse · Heisig RSH #2960
mortar + plow + 雨 rain + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 鼠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大白鼠 | white lab rat | |
| 小家鼠 | house mouse | |
| 小白鼠 | white mouse; lab mouse; lab rat; (fig.) human guinea pig | |
| 打地鼠 | Whac-A-Mole (game) | |
| 小老鼠 | @; at symbol | |
| 鼠得克 | difenacoum (anticoagulant and rodenticide) | |
| 老鼠拉龟，无从下手 | like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom); no clue where to st… | |
| 米老鼠 | Mickey Mouse | |
| 米奇老鼠 | Mickey Mouse | |
| 大鼠 | rat | |
| 子鼠 | Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008) | |
| 鼠标器 | mouse (computer) | |
| 鼠尾草 | sage (Salvia officinalis) | |
| 小鼠 | mouse | |
| 老鼠 | rat; mouse (CL:隻|只[zhi1]) | |
| 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心 | see 黃鼠狼給雞拜年|黄鼠狼给鸡拜年[huang2 shu3 lang2 gei3 ji1 bai4 nian2] | |
| 鼠年 | Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008) | |
| 胆小如鼠 | (idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless | |
| 老鼠过街，人人喊打 | lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom); fig. everyone detests a … | |
| 沙鼠 | gerbil |