二十日鼠

Japanese

Kanji in this term
二 十 日 鼠
Grade: 1 Grade: 1 Grade: 1 ねずみ
Hyōgaiji
Irregular

Wikispecies

二十日鼠 (hatsuka nezumi): the common house mouse.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From 二十日 (hatsuka, “twenty days”) +‎ 鼠 (nezumi, “rat; mouse”),[1][2] so named for the gestation period of roughly 20 days. 二十日 is jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) はつかね​ずみ [hàtsúkánéꜜzùmì] (Nakadaka – [4])[2][3][4]
    • IPA(key): [ha̠t͡sɨ̥ᵝka̠ne̞zɨᵝmʲi]

Noun

二十日鼠 (hiragana はつかねずみ, katakana ハツカネズミ, rōmaji hatsukanezumi)

  1. a house mouse

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ハツカネズミ.

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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