musasabi ムササビ

Translation

musasabi is normally written with katakana, as ムササビ.
musasabi written with hiragana is むささび.

musasabi written with kanji is 鼯鼠.
This word contains non-jouyou kanji 常用漢字.

musasabi may also be written as 鼺鼠.

musasabi is a jukujikun 熟字訓 reading for 鼯鼠 in this word. That is: those kanji are only read that way when they come together like that.

Scientific name: Petaurista leucogenys.

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