Zi:鼠
鼠 [shǔ] (老鼠 lǎoshǔ) mouse/rat; (生肖) 鼠年 Mouse/Rat Year (1st year in cycle); (radical 208, 鼠部); (HDZ:) (兽名) (统称) 穴居兽; (生肖) 子; 癙 (鼠病; 忧病); 予: 给予
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►⁴shǔ 鼠 {E} b.f. ①mouse; rat ►lạ̌oshǔ 老鼠 ②〈environment:〉 comp. mouse ►shǔbiāo 鼠标 ►huáshǔ 滑鼠
The Shuōwén Seal form of 鼠 shǔ ‘rodent/mouse/rat’ is said to derive from old pictographs depicting the animal, with its head/mouth/teeth wr. like 臼 jiù ‘mortar’ (for grinding, i.e. gnawing), its feet/claws wr. rather like 比 as in other animal graphs such as 鹿, 能 or 鳥, and a line on the right for the back/tail.
Compare: 巤 liè ‘furry/hairy (beast/mane)’; 猎/獵 liè ‘hunt’.
Compare: 窜/竄 cuàn ‘scurry off’ (lie a rat into its hole); in the simple form 窜 the rat 鼠 is abbrev. as 串 chuàn ‘pierce’ (phonosemantic).
Compare: 齿/齒 chǐ ‘tooth/teeth’ (臼齿 ‘molars’).
“Rat, rodents in general; 穴虫之总名也。象形。The head, the stiff whiskers, and the tail. The ancient character represented the animal” —Wieger.
►references: Guǎngyùn:257.14; Wieger:139b; Karlgren:AD915,GSR92a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:7.4772.1; Mathews:5871; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1527.14; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:280.1.03; Wáng(1993):50; EDOC:1
►components: 臼
►Cantonese: syu/
<cdl char='鼠' uni='9F20' points='4,0 128,128'>
<comp char='臼' uni='81FC' points='0,0 107,49' />
<comp char='' uni='E754' points='0,64 128,128' />
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</cdl>
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<stroke type='p' points='46,0 0,30' />
<stroke type='s' points='0,28 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,74 48,74' head='cut' />
<stroke type='hz' points='78,24 128,24 128,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='h' points='80,74 128,74' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='E754' points='4,64 128,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='st' points='0,0 0,128 28,104' />
<stroke type='d' points='16,16 35,36' />
<stroke type='d' points='16,62 35,84' />
<stroke type='st' points='51,0 51,128 77,104' />
<stroke type='d' points='65,16 83,36' />
<stroke type='d' points='65,62 83,84' />
<stroke type='xg' points='95,0 128,128 128,68' />
</cdl>
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