猫
māo
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 貓
A cat, kept at home as a pet or living out in the street. The measure word is 只, as for most animals: 一只猫 'a cat'; a kitten is 小猫.
Con mèo, nuôi trong nhà hoặc sống ngoài đường. Lượng từ là 只 như với hầu hết các con vật: 一只猫 (một con mèo); mèo con là 小猫.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 猫/貓 = miêu · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “猫” mean?
A cat, kept at home as a pet or living out in the street. The measure word is 只, as for most animals: 一只猫 'a cat'; a kitten is 小猫.
Is “猫” formal or informal?
猫 is generally neutral.