Memory phrase for the Kanji: 鼠

鼠

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Meaning mouse, rat

Pronunciation

shǔ

Explanation

Top: mortar 臼, below: image of a mouse with legs レ and tail し

Mnemonic
 
(Because of grain residues) It is at the mortar & looks like a mouse: The mouse!

Radicals

臼 mortar
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 Vocabulary

 老鼠  lǎo shǔ  rat; mouse
 坎贝尔侏儒仓鼠  Kǎn bèi ěr zhū rú cāng shǔ  Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
 鼠海豚  shǔ hǎi tún  porpoise
 鼠型斑疹伤寒  shǔ xíng bān zhěn shāng hán  murine typhus
 鼠蚤型斑疹伤寒  shǔ zǎo xíng bān zhěn shāng hán  murine typhus fever
 穷鼠啮狸  qióng shǔ niè lí  a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
 鼠窜  shǔ cuàn  to run away scared; to scurry off like a frightened rat
 豚鼠  tún shǔ  guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
 小白鼠  xiǎo bái shǔ  little white mouse (esp. laboratory animal); fig. guinea pig, i.e. human participant in experiment
 鼠蹊  shǔ xī  groin
 鼠蹊  shǔ xī  

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