猫
māomáo HSK2

cat

猫 貓 māo frequency
cat noun
cat; feline; any of several small carnivorous mammals commonly kept as pets or for catching mice

你比较喜欢狗还是猫？

nǐ bǐ​jiào xǐ​huan gǒu hái​shi māo?

Do you prefer dogs or cats?

to hide away
(colloquial) to hide oneself; to stay tucked away
modem
(loanword, colloquial) modem
猫 貓 máo
to bend
(bound form) to bend over; to stoop, as in 猫腰 māo​yāo

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,673rd most common 55.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,084th most common 88.2 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
105.0 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
92.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
貓
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+732B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)