ねずみ
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Meanings
Noun
1. mouse; rat (Usually kana)
2. dark gray; slate gray (Usually kana, Abbreviation)
Other spellings
鼠ねずみ
Other readings
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
ねずみ
Used in vocabulary
はつかねずみ
house mouse (Mus musculus)
Noun
天てん竺じく鼠ねずみ
guinea pig (any of five guinea pig species, esp. Cavia porcellus)
Noun
ねずみ花はな火び
Catherine wheel (firework); pinwheel
Noun
濡ぬれ鼠ねずみ
soaked to the skin; like a drowned rat
Expression
大だい黒こく鼠ねずみ
white rat; white rat that serves Daikoku (god of wealth)
Noun
あれちねずみ
lesser Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus)
Noun
大おお水みず鼠ねずみ
rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster); water-rat
Noun
せすじねずみ
striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius)
Noun
にほんじねずみ
Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi); Japanese white-toothed shrew
Noun
おきなわとげねずみ
Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat
Noun
葡萄ぶどう鼠ねずみ
reddish grey (colour)
Noun
ねずみ返がえし
rat guard (device placed on storehouse pillars, mooring ropes, pipes, etc. to block the passage of rats)
Noun
Examples51
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
The ship abounds with rats.
Modern cats don't eat rats.
This mouse was killed by my cat.
The culprit is caught like a rat in a trap.
Is the mouse dead or alive?