鼪

鼪 (Kangxi radical 208, 鼠+5, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹女竹手一 (HVHQM), four-corner 7571₁, composition ⿰鼠生)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1528, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48423
• Dae Jaweon: page 2064, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4774, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9F2A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sreŋ, *sreŋs) : semantic 鼠 (“mouse; rat”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).

STEDT reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-(l/r)e(y/ŋ) (“squirrel, weasel”). Cognates include:

• insides Chinese, 狸 (OC *rɯ) (however, see there for other etymologies);
• outsides Chinese, Tibetan སྲེ་མོང (sre mong, “weasel”), Burmese ရှဉ့် (hrany., “squirrel”), Lepcha (să-myóŋ, “marmot”), Karbi (iŋren, “mongoose”) (< *m-ren) (see also Schuessler, 2009), Proto-Karen *hliᴮ - whence S'gaw Karen (liɁ⁴⁵lu¹¹¨) (Northern) & (li⁴⁵’) (Southern) - all meaning "squirrel", etc.

鼪

1. ^† Siberian weasel

   • 子獨不見狸狌乎？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子独不见狸狌乎？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Zǐ dú bù jiàn lí shēng hū?

     Have you not seen a wildcat or a weasel?

   • 藜藋柱乎鼪鼬之逕…… [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     藜藋柱乎鼪鼬之迳…… [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     lídiào zhǔ hū shēngyòu zhī jìng......

     Goosefeet and elderberries block the weasels’ path

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. weasel

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}、せい (sei)、そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: いたち (itachi, 鼪)、むささび (musasabi, 鼪)

鼪 • (saeng) (hangeul 생)

1. weasel
2. squirrel