Chinese symbol for “hamster”
仓鼠
cāng shǔ
Traditional: 倉鼠
hamster
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hamster is 仓鼠 (cāng shǔ), defined as: hamster.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 仓鼠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仓库 (倉庫) | cāng kù | depot; storehouse |
| 仓储 (倉儲) | cāng chǔ | to store in a warehouse |
| 仓促 (倉促) | cāng cù | all of a sudden; hurriedly |
| 粮仓 (糧倉) | liáng cāng | granary; barn |
| 持仓 (持倉) | chí cāng | (finance) to hold one's securities (rather than selling them) |
| 老鼠 | lǎo shǔ | rat; mouse (只 (zhī)) |
| 鼠标 (鼠標) | shǔ biāo | (computing) mouse |
| 松鼠 | sōng shǔ | squirrel |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hamster”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.