rat / mouse / CL: 隻｜只

rat / mouse / CL: 隻｜只

mouse (computing)

squirrel

kangaroo

hamster

mouse pad

mole (zoology)

@ / at symbol

mouse

Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)

groundhog

little white mouse (esp. laboratory animal) / fig. guinea pig, i.e. human participant in experiment

plague

guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)

flying squirrel / (dialect) bat

cowardly

rat

a scoundrel / a bad chap

cat and mouse game

see 黃鼬｜黄鼬

woodlouse / pill bug

vole

(computer) mouse (Tw)

mouse (computer)

wallaby / pademelon

sage (Salvia officinalis)

lit. the head of a river deer and the eyes of a rat (idiom) / fig. repulsively ugly and shifty-looking

Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)

opossum (zoo.)

rat poison

mouse hole

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

Yersinia pestis / the bubonic plage bacillus

chinchilla / chipmunk

chicken-hearted (idiom) / gutless

gerbil

short-sighted

to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously

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

dormouse

difenacoum (anticoagulant and rodenticide)

guinea pig / cavy

Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)

flying squirrel

rat poison

to scamper off / to scurry off like a frightened rat

coypu / nutria

weasel

the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears

(idiom) to hesitate / to remain undecided

lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature

rat poison

see 黃鼠狼給雞拜年｜黄鼠狼给鸡拜年

lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife

Mickey Mouse

quokka (Setonix brachyurus)

small-minded

lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

mouse

rat / mouse

mouse pad (Tw)

see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥｜一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥

swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)

porpoise

guinea pig

lit. to net birds and dig for rats (idiom); fig. hard pressed for cash / on the verge of bankruptcy

lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

Oriental ratsnake (Ptyas mucosus)

lit. a dog who catches mice (idiom) / fig. to be meddlesome

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

lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people

a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on

murine typhus

moleskin

mousetrap

dwarf hamster

plague vaccine

shifty-eyed / crafty-looking (idiom)

mouse spider (genus Missulena)

like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start

it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

chipmunk (genus Tamias)

carpal tunnel syndrome (Tw)

oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)

murine typhus fever

Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)

when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle

groin

great jerboa (Allactaga major)

Mickey Mouse