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Stroke order

Han character

(radical 94 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大竹廿田 (KHTW), four-corner 44260, composition)

References


Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
ねこ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. /*ni1a-ko1ma//ne1ko1ma//neko/

Shortened from nekoma: see below.

Pronunciation

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , counter , hiragana ねこ, katakana ネコ, romaji neko)

  1. cat
    • 931938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 7, page 56:
      猫: 野王案、猫、音苗、禰古麻、下總本有和名二字興河海抄引此合、本草和名同訓、或省云禰古、新撰字鏡、狸、禰古、按狸一名猫、見本草和名、似虎而小、熊捕鼠為糧
Derived terms
Idioms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
ねこま
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/*ni1a-ko1ma//ne1ko1ma/

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of にゃ (nya, onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes (compare English mew)) + こま (koma, four-legged animal).

Obsolete; replaced by shorter form neko in modern Japanese.

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ねこま, romaji nekoma)

  1. (obsolete) cat
    • 931938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 7, page 56:
      猫: 野王案、猫、音苗、禰古麻、下總本有和名二字興河海抄引此合、本草和名同訓、或省云禰古、新撰字鏡、狸、禰古、按狸一名猫、見本草和名、似虎而小、熊捕鼠為糧

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(myo) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

  1. (고양이 묘, goyang-i): cat

Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana まやー, romaji mayā)

Noun

(hiragana まやー, romaji mayā)

  1. cat

Compounds


Yaeyama

Kanji

(hiragana まやー, romaji mayā)

Noun

(hiragana まやー, romaji mayā)

  1. cat

Yoron

Kanji

(hiragana みゃんか, romaji myanka)

Noun

(hiragana みゃんか, romaji myanka)

  1. cat