鼠 shǔ

1. 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')
2. shǔ noun Kangxi radical 208
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Rat (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. 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')
4. shǔ adjective anxious; agitated
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: See 鼠思 (Guoyu '鼠' adj)

Contained in

• 虎头鼠尾(虎頭鼠尾) a tiger's head and rat's tail; a noble start but weak finish
• 露脊鼠海豚 Indo-Pacific finless porpoise; finless porpoise
• 鼠胆(鼠膽) cowardly
• 鼠海豚 porpoise
• 鼠肚鸡肠(鼠肚雞腸) small-minded
• 鼠疫菌苗 plague vaccine
• 田鼠 vole
• 短尾矮袋鼠 quokka
• 沙袋鼠 swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
• 鼯鼠 flying squirrel
• 鼠辈(鼠輩) a scoundrel; a bad chap
• 袋鼠 kangaroo
• 鼹鼠皮(鼴鼠皮) moleskin
• 狗逮老鼠 a dog who catches mice; to be meddlesome
• 鼠目寸光 rat's eyes with a one inch depth of vision; shortsighted
• 过街老鼠(過街老鼠) sb or sth detested by all; target of scorn; anathema; cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打
• 滑鼠手 carpal tunnel syndrome
• 鼠得克 difenacoum (anticoagulant and rodenticide)
• 仓鼠(倉鼠) hamster
• 抱头鼠窜(抱頭鼠竄) to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
• 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年(黃鼠狼給雞拜年) Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned.
• 松鼠 squirrel
• 侏儒仓鼠(侏儒倉鼠) dwarf hamster
• 罗雀掘鼠(羅雀掘鼠) to net birds and dig for rats; hard pressed for cash; on the verge of bankruptcy
• 海狸鼠 coypu; nutria
• 小白鼠 little white mouse (especially laboratory animal); guinea pig, i.e. human participant in experiment
• 天竺鼠 guinea pig; cavy
• 睡鼠 dormouse
• 鼲鼠 gray squirrel
• 子鼠 Year 1; Year of the Rat
• 小袋鼠 wallaby; pademelon
• 花栗鼠 chipmunk (genus Tamias)
• 抱头鼠蹿(抱頭鼠躥) to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat; to flee ignominiously
• 偃鼠 mole; Temminck's mole; Japanese mole
• 鼠疫 plague
• 坎贝尔侏儒仓鼠(坎貝爾侏儒倉鼠) Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
• 鼬鼠 weasel
• 鼠窜(鼠竄) to scamper off; to scurry off like a frightened rat
• 猫鼠游戏(貓鼠遊戲) cat and mouse game
• 城狐社鼠 foxes in the city and rats in the temples
• 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
• 大五趾跳鼠 great jerboa
• 米奇老鼠 Mickey Mouse
• 鼠药(鼠藥) rat poison
• 鼠思 anxious; agitated
• 滑鼠 mouse
• 鼠疫杆菌(鼠疫桿菌) Yersinia pestis; the bubonic plage bacillus
• 鼠蹊 groin
• 投鼠忌器 to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases
• 杀鼠药(殺鼠藥) rat poison

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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
• 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
• 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
• 投鼠 (投鼠) 欲投鼠而忌其器 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 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