喵

喵 U+55B5, 喵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55B5 ← 喴 [U+55B4] CJK Unified Ideographs 営 → [U+55B6]

Translingual

Han character

喵 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口廿田 (RTW), four-corner 6406₀, composition ⿰口苗)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4024
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 637, character 6
• Unihan data for U+55B5

Chinese

trad.		喵
simp. #		喵

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 + phonetic 苗.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miāo (miao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): miu¹ / meu¹
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹miau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miao
    • Wade–Giles: miao¹
    • Yale: myāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhiau
    • Palladius: мяо (mjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: miu¹ / meu¹
    • Cantonese Pinyin: miu¹ / meu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːu̯⁵⁵/, /mɛːu̯⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹miau
    • MiniDict: 'miau^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /miæ⁴⁴/

Definitions

喵

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of a cat: meow, mew.

   • 我們一起學貓叫，一起喵喵喵喵喵 [MSC, trad.]
     我们一起学猫叫，一起喵喵喵喵喵 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2018, 小潘潘 and 小峰峰, 學貓叫 (Learn to Meow)

     wǒmen yīqǐ xué māo jiào, yīqǐ miāo miāo miāo miāo miāo [Pinyin]

     Let's learn the cat's cry together. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow together.

Synonyms

• 咪咪 (mīmī)

Compounds

• 喵喵

 

Vietnamese

Han character

喵: Hán Nôm readings: mếu, miêu

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