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  *鼠* | 鼠* | *鼠
(bound form) rat; mouse
HSK 5
mouse (computing)
HSK 5
(computer) mouse (Tw)
rat; mouse (CL:隻|只)
lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife
squirrel
kangaroo
vole
flying squirrel / (dialect) bat
guinea pig / cavy
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
(idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless
plague
guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
chinchilla / chipmunk
hamster
groin
mouse pad (Tw)
Mickey Mouse
mole (zoology)
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
shifty-eyed / crafty-looking (idiom)
lit. the head of a river deer and the eyes of a rat (idiom) / fig. repulsively ugly and shifty-looking
cowardly
(idiom) to hesitate / to remain undecided
(zoology) coypu; nutria
Mickey Mouse
groundhog
small-minded
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
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. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
mouse
flying squirrel
mouse (computer)
short-sighted
rat poison
mouse
to scamper off / to scurry off like a frightened rat
rat poison
porpoise
weasel
lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people
lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature
rat
chipmunk (genus Tamias)
Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
a scoundrel / a bad chap
@ / at symbol
white mouse / lab mouse; lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
wallaby / pademelon
dormouse
quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
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)
dwarf hamster
oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
great jerboa (Allactaga major)
mouse
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
mousetrap
swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
gerbil
carpal tunnel syndrome (Tw)
Oriental ratsnake (Ptyas mucosus)
lit. a dog who catches mice (idiom) / fig. to be meddlesome
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start
when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle
mouse hole
bubonic plague
guinea pig
cat and mouse game
opossum (zoo.)
murine typhus
woodlouse / pill bug
sage (Salvia officinalis)
Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
difenacoum (anticoagulant and rodenticide)
mouse pad
Yersinia pestis / the bubonic plage bacillus
plague vaccine
rat poison
murine typhus fever
mouse spider (genus Missulena)
moleskin


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