Chinese symbol for “rodent”
啮齿动物
niè chǐ dòng wù
Traditional: 嚙齒動物
rodent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rodent is 啮齿动物 (niè chǐ dòng wù), defined as: rodent.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 啮齿动物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啮合 (嚙合) | niè hé | (of opposing teeth, or gears) to mesh; to engage |
| 啮齿类 (囓齒類) | niè chǐ lèi | rodents |
| 咬啮 (咬嚙) | yǎo niè | to gnaw |
| 啮齿目 (嚙齒目) | niè chǐ mù | order of rodents (rats, squirrels etc) |
| 牙齿 (牙齒) | yá chǐ | tooth; dental |
| 齿轮 (齒輪) | chǐ lún | (machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel) |
| 不齿 (不齒) | bù chǐ | to despise; to hold in contempt |
| 锯齿 (鋸齒) | jù chǐ | sawtooth |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rodent”.
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.