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猫

貓traditional

HSK 1#1150 by frequencyradical 犭

māo["n","v"]

cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem

máo

used in 貓腰|猫腰[mao2 yao1]

Measure word: 只

Examples

我是猫。

I'm a cat.

猫老了。

The cat is old.

Part of the HSK 1 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.