竹鼠
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Chinese
| bamboo | rat; mouse | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (竹鼠) | 竹 | 鼠 | |
| simp. #(竹鼠) | 竹 | 鼠 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk1 syu2
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): doeh6 cy3 / dyoeh6 cy3
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tek-chhí / tek-chhú / tek-chhír
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zhúshǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ ㄕㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhúshǔ
- Wade–Giles: chu2-shu3
- Yale: jú-shǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwushuu
- Palladius: чжушу (čžušu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: zuk1 syu2
- Yale: jūk syú
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk7 sy2
- Guangdong Romanization: zug1 xu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵ syː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: doeh6 cy3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: de̤h-chṳ̂
- Sinological IPA (key): /tœʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ t͡sʰy⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: dyoeh6 cy3
- Sinological IPA (key): /tyøʔ²⁻⁴ t͡sʰy³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek-chhí
- Tâi-lô: tik-tshí
- Phofsit Daibuun: dekchie
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰi⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek-chhú
- Tâi-lô: tik-tshú
- Phofsit Daibuun: dekzhuo
- IPA (Taipei): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Yongchun)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek-chhír
- Tâi-lô: tik-tshír
- IPA (Yongchun): /tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰɯ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Noun
竹鼠
- bamboo rat
- (specifically) Chinese bamboo rat (Rhizomys sinensis)
Synonyms
- (obsolete) 䶉 (liú)
Derived terms
- 中華竹鼠 / 中华竹鼠 (“Rhizomys sinensis”)
- 大竹鼠 (“Rhizomys sumatrensis”)
- 花白竹鼠 (“Rhizomys pruinosus”)
- 銀星竹鼠 / 银星竹鼠 (“Rhizomys pruinosus”)
References
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “竹鼠”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 140.