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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鼠* | 鼠* | *鼠
(bound form) rat; mouse
HSK 5
white lab rat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
(embryology) to involute; involution / (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race; to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *赖* | 赖* | *赖
to depend on / to hang on in a place / bad / to renege (on promise) / to disclaim / to rat (on debts) / rascally / to blame / to put the blame on
HSK 6
bamboo rat
to lie stretched out / (neologism, attested by 2021) to opt out of the rat race
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鼭* | 鼭* | *鼭
a kind of rat
rat; mouse (CL:隻|只)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *冬* | 冬* | *冬
(onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat
white mouse / lab mouse; lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
mole / spy / rat / traitor
(onom.) bang (door slamming shut etc) / rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc)
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
lit. the head of a river deer and the eyes of a rat (idiom) / fig. repulsively ugly and shifty-looking
rat poison
(dialect) mouse; rat
traitor to one's love / heartless rat
lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
rat poison
lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom) / to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
rat poison
(coll.) to tattletale; to rat on sb
to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously / also written 抱頭鼠竄|抱头鼠窜
rat
to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
to scamper off / to scurry off like a frightened rat
(finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds a position in a security at low prices using personal funds, then uses public funds to drive up the price
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature
lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people


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