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Japanese | 猫 |
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Simplified | 猫 |
Traditional | 貓 |
貓 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月竹廿田 (BHTW), four-corner 44260, composition ⿰豸苗)
Historical forms of the character 貓 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *mreːw, *mrew) : semantic 豸 + phonetic 苗 (OC *mrew).
Ma Xulun suggested that 豸 was the original character of 貓.
trad. | 貓/猫 | |
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simp. | 猫 |
Onomatopoeic. Compare 喵 (miāo, “meow, the onomatopoeic cry of a cat”).
Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese *mau, reasoning that 貓's place among division II syllables results from its onomatopoeic nature instead of an Old Chinese medial *-r-; onomatopoeia is also responsible for the 陰平/阴平 (yīnpíng) tone instead of the expected 陽平/阳平 (yángpíng).
Variety | Location | 貓 |
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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 (Hokkien) | /bau³⁵/ /niau⁵⁵/ |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /ma⁵³/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /me³³/ /miau³³/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /ŋiãu³³/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /va³¹/ /niau³⁵/ /niau²³/ |
貓
trad. | 貓 | |
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simp. | 猫 | |
alternative forms | 毛 |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
貓
trad. | 貓 | |
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simp. | 猫 |
貓
trad. | 貓 | |
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simp. | 猫 | |
alternative forms | 猫 媌 |
貓
貓 (eumhun 고양이 묘 (goyang'i myo))
貓: Hán Việt readings: miêu (
貓: Nôm readings: mèo[1][2], miêu[4]