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Meaning of 鼹

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(Trad.: 鼴)
Pinyin: yǎn
English Definition: mole
Chinese Definition:
①(鼹鼠)哺乳动物,长十余厘米,毛黑褐色,趾有钩爪,善掘土,白天住在土中,夜晚捕食昆虫,也吃农作物的根。俗称“地排子”。
Total strokes: 23; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (rat) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ shǔ ] rat, mouse
    • [ yàn ] peaceful, tranquil, quiet; clear; late in the day
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Example Words
鼹鼠 yǎn shǔ mole (zoology)
针鼹 zhēn yǎn echidna
鼹鼠皮 yǎn shǔ moleskin
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Example Sentences
1
Humans have a fovea for sight, and star-nosed moles have a fovea for touch.
2
AS OFTEN OCCURS, our observations about the star-nosed mole's sensory system raised as many questions as they answered.
3
寿齿
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The naked mole rat is also of interest because it is extraordinarily long-lived for a rodent of its size (up to 28 years) and holds the record for the longest living rodent.
4
The backward developmental sequence suggests that ancestral star -nosed moles might have had strips of sensory organs lying flat against the sides of the snout.
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The discovery of a somatosensory fovea in the star-nosed mole suggests that this organizational scheme is a general evolutionary solution to constructing a high-resolution sensory system.