miāo

the mew of the cat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

苗 sound component

  Sound component

miáo

  

sprouts

Definitions

 

miāo

the mew of the cat; (onom.) meow; cat's mewing

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9290% of movies

3151st most common character in movies

4550th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+55B5


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