Pinyin: māo

cat

Example sentence

那只猫很小。

Nà zhī māo hěn xiǎo.

That cat is very small.

What 猫 means

(māo) is a Chinese word meaning “cat”. It belongs to the Things & Animals topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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