Chinese Notes

鼠 shǔ

shǔ noun a rat; a mouse
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Animal 动物
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鼠'; Guoyu '鼠' n 1; Unihan '鼠')
shǔ noun Kangxi radical 208
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Rat (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
shǔ noun rodents
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Zoology , Concept: Superfamily 总科
Notes: Scientific name: Muroidea; includes mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils (Wikipedia '鼠')
shǔ adjective anxious; agitated
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: See 鼠思 (Guoyu '鼠' adj)

Contained in

露脊鼠海豚 Indo-Pacific finless porpoise; finless porpoise
印鼠客蚤 oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
鼠疫杆菌(鼠疫桿菌) Yersinia pestis; the bubonic plage bacillus
不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫(不管白貓黑貓，捉住老鼠就是好貓) it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤(一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯) a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup; one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
飞鼠(飛鼠) flying squirrel ; bat
鼠胆(鼠膽) cowardly
仙鼠 bat
滑鼠蛇 Oriental ratsnake (Ptyas mucosus)
投鼠忌器 to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases
土拨鼠(土撥鼠) groundhog
狗逮老鼠 a dog who catches mice; to be meddlesome
杀鼠药(殺鼠藥) rat poison
鼠药(鼠藥) rat poison
鼠肚鸡肠(鼠肚雞腸) small-minded
花栗鼠 chipmunk (genus Tamias)
鼠思 anxious; agitated
抱头鼠蹿(抱頭鼠躥) to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat; to flee ignominiously
老鼠过街，人人喊打(老鼠過街，人人喊打) when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down; everyone detests a lowlife
小鼠属(小鼠屬) Mus
米奇老鼠 Mickey Mouse
鼠年 Year of the Rat
鼠海豚 porpoise
灰鼠 gray squirrel
鼲鼠 gray squirrel
海狸鼠 coypu; nutria
贼眉鼠眼(賊眉鼠眼) shifty-eyed; crafty-looking
大鼠 rat
鼠蚤型斑疹伤寒(鼠蚤型斑疹傷寒) murine typhus fever
鼷鼠 a mouse
天竺鼠 guinea pig; cavy
鼠标垫(鼠標墊) mouse pad
胆小如鼠(膽小如鼠) chicken-hearted ; gutless
田鼠 vole
小家鼠 mouse
老鼠尾巴 rat's tail; a follower of inferior stature
沙袋鼠 swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
小老鼠 @; at symbol
猫哭老鼠(貓哭老鼠) the cat weeps for the dead mouse; hypocritical pretence of condolence; crocodile tears
鼹鼠皮(鼴鼠皮) moleskin
狗偷鼠窃(狗偷鼠竊) a dog robs and a rat steals; a sneaky person
睡鼠 dormouse
灭鼠药(滅鼠藥) rat poison
鼠妇(鼠婦) woodlouse; pill bug
沙鼠 gerbil
栗鼠 chinchilla; chipmunk
鼠尾草 sage (Salvia officinalis)
鼠疫菌苗 plague vaccine
滑鼠垫(滑鼠墊) mouse pad

Also contained in

鼠标、钉头鼠尾描

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《鼠部》 Shǔ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 42
卷三十四　　　　志第二十四　　五行一 Volume 34 Treatises 28: Five Elements 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 28
卷112上靈徵志八上 Volume 112a Treatise 8: The Spiritual World 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 19
卷六十五志第十八五行三 Volume 65 Treatises 18: Five Elements 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
《釋獸》 Explanation of Beasts Er Ya 爾雅 — count: 14
卷二十九志第五五行二 Volume 29 Treatises 5: Five Elements 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
外儲說右上第三十四 Chapter 34: A Collection of Sayings V Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 12
卷九十六　列傳第八十四:　氐吐谷渾宕昌鄧至白蘭党項附國稽胡 Volume 96 Biographies 84: Di, Tuyuhun, Dangchang, Dengzhi, Bailan, Tangut, Fu, Jihu History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 10
卷一百十九列傳第六十九: 楊綰崔祐甫常袞 Volume 119 Biographies 69: Yang Wan, Cui Youfu, Chang Gun Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 10
卷二十七中之上五行志 Volume 27b: Treatise on the Five Elements 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 10

Collocations

鸟鼠 (鳥鼠) 鳥鼠攸去 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧斯干 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - Si Gan — count: 24
社鼠 (社鼠) 且左右皆社鼠也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說右上第三十四 Chapter 34: A Collection of Sayings V — count: 16
硕鼠 (碩鼠) 碩鼠 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧魏‧碩鼠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Shou Shu — count: 12
鼠舞 (鼠舞) 鼠舞如故 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之上五行志 Volume 27b: Treatise on the Five Elements 2 — count: 7
鼠同 (鼠同) 導渭自鳥鼠同穴 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 6
腐鼠 (腐鼠) 腐鼠在壇 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十七　說林訓 Chapter 17: A Forest of Persuasion — count: 6
投鼠 (投鼠) 欲投鼠而忌其器 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 2 — count: 5
鼠矢 (鼠矢) 皆有乾鼠矢數十 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七中之上五行志 Volume 27b: Treatise on the Five Elements 2 — count: 5
鼠子 (鼠子) 關東鼠子欲何為乎 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 5
捕鼠 (捕鼠) 無以異於使蟹捕鼠 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 5