溝鼠
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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溝 | 鼠 |
どぶ Grade: S | ねずみ Hyōgaiji |
kun’yomi |
Etymology
From 溝 (dobu, “ditch; gutter”) + 鼠 (nezumi, “mouse; rat”). Compare Korean 시궁쥐 (sigungjwi, “brown rat”, literally “gutter rat”), Vietnamese chuột cống (“rat”, literally “gutter rat”).
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) どぶねずみ [dòbúnéꜜzùmì] (Nakadaka – [3])
- IPA(key): [do̞bɯ̟ᵝne̞zɨᵝmʲi]
Noun
溝鼠 (hiragana どぶねずみ, katakana ドブネズミ, rōmaji dobunezumi)
- a brown rat