兔子

hare / rabbit / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

variant of 兔[tu4]

rabbit

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[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)

rabbits don't have long tails (idiom) / its days are numbered / won't last long

A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.

you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom) / one doesn't act before one is sure to succeed