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土拨鼠

土撥鼠
shǔ

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shǔ
  1. 1.(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)

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  1. 1.marmot

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Etymology

First attested in Bencao Shiyi (本草拾遺, 739 CE) by Chen Cangqi (陳藏器). A loan-blend consisting of 土撥 (Phono-semantic matching of Proto-Mongolic *tarbagan) and 鼠 (Han, 2023).

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