喵

喵	U+55B5, 喵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55B5

← 喴
[U+55B4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

営 →
[U+55B6]

Translingual

Han character

喵 (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: volume 1, page 637, character 6

Unihan data for U+55B5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		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)⁺
  - Pinyin: miāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠ
  - Wade-Giles: miao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhiau
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: miu¹, meu¹
  - Yale: mīu, colloquial sounds not defined
  - Cantonese Pinyin: miu¹, meu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: miu¹, colloquial sounds not defined
  - IPA ^(key): /miːu̯⁵⁵/, /mɛːu̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

喵

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

Synonyms

咪咪 (mīmī)

Compounds

喵喵

Vietnamese

Han character

喵 (mếu, miêu)

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