鼠 Radical 208 — a rat, a mouse; a rodent
shǔ (third tone, dipping)
a rat, a mouse; a rodent
Radical 20813 strokes0 characters
Where the shape comes from
A rodent seen from below, its sharp teeth, whiskers, clawed feet and long trailing tail all packed into the strokes — a busier, more detailed picture than most animal radicals allow. It names the everyday creature in 老鼠, a mouse, a rat, and extends by a modern coinage to 鼠标, a computer mouse, and by simple compounding to 松鼠, a squirrel, literally a pine-tree rat.
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