"heartless rat" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
负心汉 負心漢 fù xīn hàn traitor to one's love / heartless rat
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / (prefix) sub- syn
老鼠 lǎo shǔ rat / mouse (CL:隻|只[zhi1]) syn
无情 無情 wú qíng pitiless / ruthless / merciless / heartless syn
耗子 hào zi (dialect) mouse / rat syn
狠心 hěn xīn callous / heartless / to resolve (to do sth) / firm resolve (as in 下狠心[xia4 hen3xin1]) syn
落汤鸡 落湯雞 luò tāng jī a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress syn
绝情 絕情 jué qíng heartless / without regard for others' feelings
鼠药 鼠藥 shǔ yào rat poison syn
负心 負心 fù xīn ungrateful / heartless / to fail to be loyal to one's love syn
丧尽天良 喪盡天良 sàng jìn tiān liáng devoid of conscience (idiom) / utterly heartless syn
大鼠 dà shǔ rat
不仁 bù rén not benevolent / heartless / numb syn
小白鼠 xiǎo bái shǔ white mouse / lab mouse / lab rat / (fig.) human guinea pig
抱头鼠窜 抱頭鼠竄 bào tóu shǔ cuàn to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom) / to flee ignominiously syn
内鬼 內鬼 nèi guǐ mole / spy / rat / traitor
啮齿 嚙齒 niè chǐ a rodent (rat, rabbit etc)
寡情 guǎ qíng heartless / unfeeling
shǔ (bound form) rat / mouse syn
dōng (onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat syn
鼠窜 鼠竄 shǔ cuàn to scamper off / to scurry off like a frightened rat
内卷 內捲 nèi juǎn (embryology) to involute / involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race / to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
灭鼠药 滅鼠藥 miè shǔ yào rat poison
鼠年 shǔ nián Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
木人石心 mù rén shí xīn lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless syn
投鼠忌器 tóu shǔ jì qì lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom) / to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents
社鼠城狐 shè shǔ chéng hú lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls / fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people
穷鼠啮狸 窮鼠嚙狸 qióng shǔ niè lí a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
没心没肺 沒心沒肺 méi xīn méi fèi simple-minded / thoughtless / heartless / nitwitted syn
良心未泯 liáng xīn wèi mǐn not totally heartless / still having a shred of conscience
落花有意,流水无情 落花有意,流水無情 luò huā yǒu yì , liú shuǐ wú qíng lit. the falling flowers are yearning for love, but the heartless brook ripples on (idiom) / fig. one side is willing, yet the other one remains indifferent (usually of unrequited love)
为富不仁 為富不仁 wéi fù - bù rén (idiom) to be wealthy and heartless syn
印鼠客蚤 yìn shǔ kè zǎo oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)
子鼠 zǐ shǔ Year 1, year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
打小报告 打小報告 dǎ xiǎo bào gào (coll.) to tattletale / to rat on sb
抱头鼠蹿 抱頭鼠躥 bào tóu shǔ cuān to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom) / to flee ignominiously / also written 抱頭鼠竄|抱头鼠窜
老鼠尾巴 lǎo shǔ wěi ba lit. rat's tail / fig. a follower of inferior stature
杀鼠药 殺鼠藥 shā shǔ yào rat poison
一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥 yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯 yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
shí a kind of rat
老鼠过街,人人喊打 老鼠過街,人人喊打 lǎo shǔ guò jiē , rén rén hǎn dǎ lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife
獐头鼠目 獐頭鼠目 zhāng tóu shǔ mù lit. the head of a river deer and the eyes of a rat (idiom) / fig. repulsively ugly and shifty-looking syn
躺平 tǎng píng to lie stretched out / (neologism c. 2021) to opt out of the rat race
𠳐 bāng (onom.) bang (door slamming shut etc) / rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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