老鼠

老鼠 lǎoshǔ in a sentence

Rat (mouse)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

老鼠 (lǎoshǔ) means Rat (mouse). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

猫抓住了 老鼠 。

Māo zhuā zhù le lǎoshǔ.

The cat caught the mouse.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 老鼠

厨房里有一只 老鼠 。

Chúfáng lǐ yǒu yì zhī lǎoshǔ.

There is a mouse in the kitchen.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 老鼠

一只 老鼠 从墙角窜了出去。

Yì zhī lǎoshǔ cóng qiángjiǎo cuàn le chūqù.

A mouse darted out from the corner of the wall.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 窜

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How is 老鼠 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 老鼠 (lǎoshǔ, "Rat (mouse)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 老鼠 an HSK word?

Yes — 老鼠 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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