sound of cat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

米 sound component

  Sound component

  

rice

Definitions

 

sound of cat, cat's meow; meter; (Cant.) don't!; sound for calling a cat

Most common words with 咪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

sound for calling a cat

妈咪

mommy (loanword)

咪咪

(onom.) meow

咪唑

imidazole (chemistry) (loanword)