Chinese Character Wiki

鼠

shǔ

rat

Pictograph of a rat.

Evolution

鼠 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鼠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鼠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鼠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鼠  

shǔ

rat, mouse; KangXi radical 208; rat; mouse; CL:隻|只[zhī]

Most common words with 鼠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鼠

rat

老鼠

rat

鼠标

mouse (computing)

松鼠

squirrel

袋鼠

kangaroo

Component uses

Meaning component in 10 characters (0 verified)

竄 鼴 鼹 鼬 鼩 鼯 鼷 鼢 鼱 巤

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l̥]aʔ

syoX

shǔ

rat


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 18.4527% of movies

1334th most common character in movies

1693rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9F20

Shuowen

“鼠，穴蟲之總名也，象形。”


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