The Japanese word for mouse is
鼠
ねずみ - nezumi
Japanese Definition
| mouse | |
| 1. 名詞. 鼠。 | |
| 2. 名詞. (コンピュータの)マウス。 | |
| 3. 名詞. 内気な人。 |
Translations for mouse and their definitions
| ハツカネズミ | |
| 1. n. 二十日鼠: a house mouse |
| マウス | |
| 1. n. (zoology computing) a mouse | |
| 2. n. Usage: For the zoological sense, the term | |
| 3. n. mouth | |
| 4. n. Usage: Commonly known due to English language learning in the public school system, but only very rarely used. In common conversation, the term |
| 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 | |
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