Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae)
2. Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
Kanji used
chestnut
mouse
Pitch accent
Top 48800
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
Sciuromorpha (suborder of rodents)
ground squirrel (esp. a ground squirrel of North America or Africa)
Hokkaido squirrel (subspecies of red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris orientis)
chipmunk (esp. the Siberian chipmunk, Tamias sibiricus)
Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
Taiwanese squirrel (subspecies of Pallas's squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus thaiwanensis)
red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
ground squirrel (esp. the Daurian ground squirrel, Spermophilus dauricus)
Examples (2 in total)
A squirrel is taking a bath in the pond.
Two little squirrels, a white squirrel and a black squirrel, lived in a large forest.