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飛鼠

简飞鼠 · 繁飛鼠

Mandarin · pinyin fēi shǔ

flying squirrel
(dialect) bat

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鼠: shǔ · rat, mouse; Kangxi radical 208
飞: fēi · fly; go quickly; dart; high

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1–3 · fei1 shu3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fei1 syu2

Cantonese word readings for 飛鼠. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

flying squirrel (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)
(ancient dialect or Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese, Leizhou Min, Puxian Min, Pinghua, Guangxi Mandarin, Yuebei Tuhua) bat (small flying mammal of order Chiroptera) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
(Singapore Hokkien) squirrel

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(Taiwanese Hokkien) pickpocket (Classifier: 隻／只 mn)

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