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鼠ねずみ - nezumi
mouse
Definitions
| Japanese > English |
| 鼠 |
| 1. n. a mouse or a rat |
| 2. n. general term for members of superfamily Muroidea, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents |
| 3. n. short for 鼠色: the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour |
| 4. n. Usage: Japanese does not generally distinguish between mice and rats, and both are commonly called nezumi. If a distinction is needed, speakers may use the adjectives 大きい or 小さい |
| 5. n. Usage: As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ネズミ |
| 6. n. Usage: Note that, although the Japanese term 子年 (, , nezumidoshi, , , nedoshi) for The Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac does derive from this same nezumi term, it is not written with this |
| 7. n. a mouse, a rat |
Pronunciation
nezumi
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