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Year of the Rat / Zodiac Sign
鼠 is the character for rat (and sometimes mouse) in Chinese, old Korean, and Japanese.
If you were born in the year of the Rat, you . . .
Are sensitive and smart.
Easily adapting to new environments.
Have a curious nature.
Are good at using the opportunities that are presented to you.
In some contexts, this character could mean “mouse.”
See also our Chinese Zodiac page.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your nezumi search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
鼠 see styles |
shǔ shu3 shu nezumi(p); nezu; nezumi(p) ねずみ(P); ねず; ネズミ(P) |
More info & calligraphy: Rat / Mouse(1) (kana only) mouse; rat; (2) (See 鼠色) dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour) muṣa; ākhu; a mouse, rat. |
鼡 see styles |
shǔ shu3 shu nezumi ねずみ |
variant of 鼠[shu3] (place-name) Nezumi |
月鼠 see styles |
yuè shǔ yue4 shu3 yüeh shu tsuki no nezumi |
The moon rat, one of the two rats, black and white, that gnaw the cord of life, i. e. night and day. |
根住 see styles |
nezumi ねずみ |
(surname) Nezumi |
根角 see styles |
nezumi ねずみ |
(surname) Nezumi |
ネズミ see styles |
nezumi ネズミ |
(1) (kana only) mouse; rat; (2) dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour) |
今村ねずみ see styles |
imamuranezumi いまむらねずみ |
(person) Imamura Nezumi |
スミス・ネズミ see styles |
sumisu nezumi スミス・ネズミ |
Smith's red-backed vole (Eothenomys smithii); Smith's vole |
鼬ごっこ(rK) see styles |
itachigokko; itachigokko; itachigokko いたちごっこ; イタチごっこ; イタチゴッコ |
(1) (kana only) (idiom) going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth; (2) (kana only) (hist) (original meaning) itachi-gokko; Edo-period children's game in which two players alternately pinch the back of the other's hands and stack them on top of each other while saying "itachi-gokko, nezumi-gokko" |
Variations: |
sumisunezumi; sumisu nezumi スミスネズミ; スミス・ネズミ |
Smith's red-backed vole (Eothenomys smithii); Smith's vole |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Rat Mouse | 鼠 | nezumi | shǔ / shu3 / shu |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
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