Listen to pronunciation (Mandarin = standard Chinese without accent)
Note: In this special case, one of the tones is pronounced differently than the (written) Pinyin phonetic script indicates. This phenomenon is called Tone sandhi.
English translations
mouse, rat
Chinese characters:
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老鼠 ( laoshu / lăoshŭ ) is composed of these characters:
老 (lao)
, 鼠 (shu)
The traditional Chinese characters of lăoshŭ are identical with the modern (simplified) characters displayed above.