Radical 208

鼠 鼡
207 ⿎ ◄	208	► ⿐ 209
Pinyin :	shǔ (= mouse)
Zhuyin :	ㄕ ㄨ ˇ
Hiragana :	ね ず み nezumi
Kanji :	鼠 繞 nezuminyou (= radical mouse)
Hangul :	쥐
Sinocorean :	서
Codepoint :	U + 9F20 9F21
Stroke sequence :

Radical 208 , meaning " mouse , rat ", is one of four traditional radicals in the Chinese writing with thirteen lines.

With 7 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare. In the Kangxi dictionary there are still 92 characters under this radical.

The spelling variant 鼡, made up of just eight lines, barely reveals the relationship to the original character; it is not used for character combinations.

The symbol arose from the pictogram of a mouse. Accordingly, characters with the radical 鼠 are related to mouse or mouse-like animals such as:

鼬 (= weasel).

In Chinese astrology, the zodiac signs give their own name every 12th year. In the legend, Buddha called all animals to a festival. The rat told the cat that this festival would be celebrated a day later. She herself rode to the festival on the back of the buffalo and was the first to reach it. Buddha rewarded all animals by naming a year after them. Rat , buffalo , tiger , rabbit , dragon , snake , horse , sheep , monkey , rooster , dog and pig . The cat but since then followed the rat to take revenge.

The mouse (or rat) is considered aggressive according to the Chinese calendar . Mouse years (子 zǐ ) are:

31 January	1900 to February 18	1901
0February 8	1912 to 0February 5	1913
0February 5th	1924 to January 24th	1925
January 24th	1936 to February 10th	1937
February 10th	1948 to January 28	1949
January 28th	1960 to February 14th	1961
February 15th	1972 to 0February 2	1973
February 2nd	1984 to February 19	1985
19th of February	1996 to 0February 6th	1997
0February 7th	2008 to January 25th	2009

Character combinations ruled by radical 208

House mouse

Strokes	character
+ 00	鼠 鼡
+ 04	鼢 鼣 鼤
+ 05	鼥 鼦 鼧 鼨 鼩 鼪 鼫 鼬
+ 06	鼭
+ 07	鼮 鼯 鼰
+ 08	鼱
+ 09	鼲 鼳 鼴 鼵
+10	鼶 鼷 鼸 鼹
+15	鼺

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 208 is coded under the code point number 12.239 (U + 2FCF).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 158 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 208  - Graphic representations of Radikal 208

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 208 on page 149