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Mythic Mandarin

猫 (māo): meaning and stroke order

猫 (māo) means cat (只), (dialect) to hide oneself, (loanword) (coll.) modem, used in 猫腰.

猫

Simplified
猫
Traditional
貓
Pinyin
māo · máo

Stroke order of 猫

猫

  • māo cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (dialect) to hide oneself
  • máo used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 貓

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 猫

  1. māo Traditional 貓
    • cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1])
    • (dialect) to hide oneself
    • (loanword) (coll.) modem
  2. máo Traditional 貓
    • used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]

Radical and structure

猫
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 12 strokes · 犭 on the left, 苗 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

猫 in our stories

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  • 在一个旧箱子里，她看见了一只猫妈妈和三只小猫。

    zài yí gè jiù xiāngzi lǐ tā kànjiàn le yì zhī māomāma hé sān zhī xiǎo māo

    In an old box she finds a mother cat and three kittens.

    From the story The noise upstairs HSK 3

  • 电话号码被一只小猫挡住了。

    diànhuà hàomǎ bèi yì zhī xiǎo māo dǎng zhù le

    The phone number is covered by a little cat.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

Stories using 猫

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).