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耗子
耗子
Chinese
mouse; new; to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander
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child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
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simp. and trad. (耗子) |
耗 | 子 | |
Noun
耗子
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 老鼠 (“mouse; rat”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 鼠 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 老鼠 | |
| Taxonomic name | 鼠 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 耗子 |
| Taiwan | 老鼠 | |
| Jinan | 老鼠 | |
| Xi'an | 老鼠 | |
| Wuhan | 老鼠、高大爹 euphemistic、客人 euphemistic | |
| Chengdu | 耗子 | |
| Yangzhou | 老鼠 | |
| Hefei | 老鼠、老鼠子 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 老鼠 |
| Hong Kong | 老鼠 | |
| Taishan | 老鼠 | |
| Yangjiang | 老鼠 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 老鼠、財神 euphemistic |
| Hakka | Meixian | 老鼠 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 老鼠 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 老鼠 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 老鼠 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 老鼠 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 老鼠 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 老鼠 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 老鼠、耗子 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 老鼠 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 老鼠、尖尖喙 euphemistic |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 老鼠 |
| Xiamen | 鳥鼠 | |
| Zhangzhou | 鳥鼠 | |
| Taipei | 鳥鼠 | |
| Kaohsiung | 鳥鼠 | |
| Tainan | 鳥鼠仔 | |
| Taichung | 鳥鼠 | |
| Yilan | 鳥鼠 | |
| Lukang | 鳥鼠 | |
| Sanxia | 鳥鼠 | |
| Kinmen | 鳥鼠 | |
| Magong | 鳥鼠 | |
| Hsinchu | 鳥鼠 | |
| Malaysia | 鳥鼠 | |
| Chaozhou | 貓鼠 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 老蟲 |
| Wenzhou | 老鼠 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 老鼠子、高客 euphemistic、高客子 euphemistic |
| Shuangfeng | 老鼠子、高客 euphemistic | |