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: 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) : semantic 口 + phonetic 苗.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miāo (miao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): miu¹, meu¹

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): /mjɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: miu¹, meu¹
  - Yale: mīu, colloquial sounds not defined
  - Cantonese Pinyin: miu¹, meu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: miu¹, colloquial sounds not defined
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːu̯⁵⁵/, /mɛːu̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

喵

(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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