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Translingual

Han character

(radical 153 +8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月竹廿田 (BHTW), four-corner 44260, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1202, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36595
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3914, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8C93

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mreːw, *mrew
*mreːw, *mrew
*mreːw, *mreːwʔ
*mreːwʔ, *mreːws, *mrew
*mrew
*mrew
庿 *mrews

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mreːw, *mrew) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *mrew).

Etymology

Onomatopoetic. Compare (miāo, “meow, the onomatopoeic cry of a cat”).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /mɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /mau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /mɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /mɔ⁴²/
/mɔ²¹³/ 瞧~兒
Qingdao /mɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mau⁴²/
Xi'an /mau²⁴/
Xining /mɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /mɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /mɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /mau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /mau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /mao⁵⁵/
Kunming /mɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /mɔo²⁴/
Hefei /mɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /mau¹¹/
Pingyao /mɔ¹³/
Hohhot /mɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /mɔ²³/
/mɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /mæ¹³/
Hangzhou /mɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /m̠uɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /mɔ³¹/
Tunxi /mən²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /miau³³/
/mau³³/
Xiangtan /maɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /mɑu⁴⁵/
/miɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /miau⁵³/
Taoyuan /meu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mau⁵⁵/
Nanning /mau⁵⁵/
/mɛu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /mau⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bau³⁵/
/niau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ma⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /me³³/
/miau³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiãu³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /va³¹/
/niau³⁵/
/niau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (92) (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇu/ /mˠau/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛu/ /mᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen
/miæu/ /mau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miaw/ /maɨw/
Li
Rong
/mjɛu/ /mau/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛu/ /mau/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛu/ /mau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miáo máo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9101 9109
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mreːw/ /*mrew/

Definitions

  1. cat   (Classifier: m c)
  2. (dialectal) to hide oneself
  3. (Mandarin, colloquial) to bend over; to stoop

Compounds

  • 三腳貓三脚猫
  • 偷貓遞狗偷猫递狗
  • 加菲貓加菲猫
  • 咬人貓咬人猫
  • 夜貓子夜猫子 (yèmāozi)
  • 小貓熊小猫熊
  • 山貓山猫 (shānmāo)
  • 憋死貓憋死猫
  • 捉鼠拿貓捉鼠拿猫
  • 暹羅貓暹罗猫
  • 木貓木猫
  • 照貓畫虎照猫画虎
  • 熊貓熊猫 (xióngmāo)
  • 狸貓狸猫
  • 病貓病猫
  • 窮鼠齧貓穷鼠齧猫
  • 老鼠見貓老鼠见猫
  • 花貓巧嘴花猫巧嘴
  • 薛定諤的貓薛定谔的猫 (Xuēdìng'è de māo)
  • 藏貓兒藏猫儿
  • 豹貓豹猫
  • 貍貓貍猫
  • 貓兒猫儿 (māor)
  • 貓兒洗臉猫儿洗脸
  • 貓兒眼猫儿眼
  • 貓兒臉猫儿脸
  • 貓兒頭猫儿头
  • 貓兒食猫儿食
  • 貓咪猫咪 (māomī)
  • 貓哭老鼠猫哭老鼠
  • 貓哭耗子猫哭耗子
  • 貓噬鸚鵡猫噬鹦鹉
  • 貓尾紅猫尾红
  • 貓嶼猫屿
  • 貓溺猫溺
  • 貓熊猫熊 (māoxióng)
  • 貓猴猫猴
  • 貓眼石猫眼石
  • 貓耳朵猫耳朵
  • 貓頭鷹猫头鹰 (māotóuyīng)
  • 貓鼠同眠猫鼠同眠
  • 貓鼻頭猫鼻头
  • 躲貓貓躲猫猫
  • 郎貓郎猫
  • 醉貓兒醉猫儿
  • 野貓野猫
  • 鐵貓铁猫
  • 鐵貓兒铁猫儿
  • 阿貓阿狗阿猫阿狗 (āmāo'āgǒu)
  • 靈貓灵猫
  • 黃貓黑尾黄猫黑尾
  • 黑貓黑猫

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

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

  1. cat

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. cat

Vietnamese

Han character

(mèo, miêu)

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