鼠 – rat, mouse, dark gray

13 strokesN3 vocabulary

The kanji 鼠 means rat, mouse, dark gray. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソ、ショ (so, sho); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ねずみ、ねず (nezumi, nezu). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 鼠 (no. 208).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ソ	so
On’yomi	ショ	sho
Kun’yomi	ねずみ	nezumi
Kun’yomi	ねず	nezu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 鼠 (Kangxi radical 208). Components: 臼.

Words using 鼠

鼠ねずみmouse

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.