竹鼠

Chinese

		bamboo	rat; mouse
trad. (竹鼠)		竹	鼠
simp. ^#(竹鼠)		竹	鼠

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhúshǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˊ ㄕㄨˇ
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⁾/
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/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: doeh⁶ cy³ [Phonetic: doeh⁷ cy³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: de̤h-chṳ̂
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tœʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ t͡sʰy⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dyoeh⁶ cy³ [Phonetic: dyoeh⁷ cy³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyøʔ²⁻⁴ t͡sʰy³³²/
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/

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 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “竹鼠”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 140.