ねずみ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. mouse; rat
2. dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
Kanji used
mouse
Pitch accent
ずみ
Top 10300
Used in vocabulary (65 in total)
dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
soaked to the skin; like a drowned rat
(fig.) rat in a trap; (fig.) trapped rat; (lit.) rat in a bag
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
field mouse; meadow mouse
house mouse (Mus musculus)
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus); common rat; dark grey (colour, color); dark gray; secret evil-doer
white rat or mouse
geometric progression; proliferation; multiplying like rats
indigo-tinged grey (gray)
Japanese dancing mouse (Mus musculus musculus)
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus); common rat; dark grey (colour, color); dark gray; secret evil-doer
mousetrap; rattrap; rat poison; speed trap
Catherine wheel (firework); pinwheel
much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)
Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus); Mongolian jird
white-toothed shrew (any rodent of genus Crocidura); shrew
Chinese fancy mouse (usu. all-white with red eyes)
rathole; mousehole
Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus)
reddish grey (colour)
guinea pig (any of five guinea pig species, esp. Cavia porcellus)
much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)
house mouse (Mus musculus)
black rat; roof rat; field mouse
black rat (Rattus rattus); roof rat
person who steals money from the workplace; embezzler; untrustworthy person
grey tinged with brown (gray)
Japanese dancing mouse (Mus musculus musculus)
rat guard; disk of wood on storehouse pillars, ropes, etc.
pyramid scheme
Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli); any rodent of subfamily Arvicolinae (incl. voles, lemmings and muskrats)
Myomorpha (suborder of rodents)
rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster); water-rat
white rat; white rat that serves Daikoku (god of wealth)
Japanese red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni); red-backed vole (any rodent of genus Myodes)
Japanese red-backed vole (Myodes andersoni); red-backed vole (any rodent of genus Myodes)
Japanese dancing mouse (Mus musculus musculus)
Salmonella typhimurium
harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena); harbour porpoise; common porpoise
greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica)
Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala)
Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)
harvest mouse (Mus minutus)
small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus)
Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala)
African mole rat (any rodent of family Bathyergidae)
Ryukyu long-haired rat (Diplothrix legata)
lesser Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus)
striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius)
large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus)
Ryukyu spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis)
Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus); kha-nyou; rat-squirrel
rice rat (Oryzomyini spp.)
Italian rye-grass (Lolium multiflorum); annual ryegrass; Australian ryegrass; short rotation ryegrass; Westerwolds ryegrass; darnel
kangaroo rat (of North America; any rodent of genus Dipodomys)
rat kangaroo (any marsupial of family Potoroidae, incl. bettongs and potoroos)
Ryukyu spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis)
Examples (5 in total)
Cats don't eat mice these days.
Rabbits are usually larger than mice.
A mouse is running around the room.