溝鼠

Japanese

Kanji in this term
溝	鼠
どぶ Grade: S	ねずみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
ドブネズミ

Etymology

From 溝 (dobu, “ditch; gutter”) +‎ 鼠 (nezumi, “mouse; rat”). Compare Korean 시궁쥐 (sigungjwi, “brown rat”, literally “gutter rat”), Vietnamese chuột cống (“rat”, literally “gutter rat”).

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi

(Tokyo) どぶねずみ [dòbúnéꜜzùmì] (Nakadaka – [3])
IPA^(key): [do̞bɯ̟ᵝne̞zɨᵝmʲi]

Noun

溝(どぶ)鼠(ねずみ) • (dobunezumi)

a brown rat

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