(māo)

cat

How 貓 is written

Strokes
16
Radical
— cat/badger
Traditional
Simplified

Components

Common words using 貓

夜貓子 yèmāozi
owl; (fig.) night owl
熊貓 xióngmāo
panda; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
熊貓眼 xióngmāoyǎn
to have dark circles under one's eyes; to have eyes like a panda
貓咪 māomī
kitty
貓眼 māoyǎn
peephole
貓頭鷹 māotóuyīng
owl
龍貓 lóngmāo
chinchilla; Totoro (anime character)
公貓 gōngmāo
male cat; tomcat
加菲貓 jiāfēimāo
Garfield (comic strip cat created by Jim Davis)
大熊貓 dàxióngmāo
giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
小熊貓 xiǎoxióngmāo
lesser panda; red panda; firefox
小貓 xiǎomāo
kitten

貓 in a sentence

我的貓很愛睡覺。

Wǒ de māo hěn ài shuìjiào.

“My cat loves to sleep.”

How common is 貓?

貓 is the 1,671st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.6% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 貓

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