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māo

cat

🔤 Pictophonetic: 犭 (animal) provides meaning, 苗 provides pronunciation

HSK 1 11 strokes Common (17%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

sprouts; Miao nationality

⿰犭苗 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

quǎn

犭

dog

📷 Pictographic: A dog turned to the side

3 strokes

miáo

苗

sprouts; Miao nationality

💡 Ideographic: Grass 艹 growing in a field 田

8 strokes HSK 5

cǎo

艹

grass, weed, plant, herb

📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 艸; grass sprouting

3 strokes

tián

田

field, farm, arable land; cultivated

📷 Pictographic: The plots of a rice paddy

5 strokes HSK 6

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

tǔ

土

soil, earth; items made of earth

📷 Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel

3 strokes HSK 5

shí

十

ten, tenth; complete; perfect

2 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

Words Using 猫 (63)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

猫 ↗

māo

cat / CL:[[隻|只<zhī>]] / (dialect) to hide oneself / (coll.) modem

māo

猫 ↗

HSK 1

cat / CL:[[隻|只<zhī>]] / (dialect) to hide oneself / (coll.) modem

熊猫 ↗

xióngmāo

panda / CL:[[隻|只<zhī>]]

xióngmāo

熊猫 ↗

HSK 3

panda / CL:[[隻|只<zhī>]]

trick / something fishy

māonì

猫腻 ↗

trick / something fishy

龙猫 ↗

lóngmāo

chinchilla / Totoro (anime character)

lóngmāo

龙猫 ↗

chinchilla / Totoro (anime character)

加菲猫 ↗

Jiāfēimāo

Garfield (comic strip cat created by Jim Davis)

Jiāfēimāo

加菲猫 ↗

Garfield (comic strip cat created by Jim Davis)

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