貓
māomáo HSK2

cat

猫 (貓) māo frequency
cat noun
cat (mammal of family Felidae)

我家养了一只小黑猫。

wǒ jiā yǎng le yī zhī xiǎo hēi māo.

I have a little black cat at home.

hide noun
to hide oneself (dialectal usage)

他猫在草丛里，不想被别人发现。

tā māo zài cǎo​cóng lǐ, bù xiǎng bèi bié​ren fā​xiàn.

He hid in the bushes, not wanting to be found.

modem verb
(coll.) (loanword) a modem

网络断了，可能是猫坏了。

Wǎng​luò duàn le, kě​néng shì māo huài le.

The internet is down; maybe the modem is broken.

猫 (貓) máo
stoop verb
used in the phrase 猫腰 máo​yāo meaning to bend over

他猫着腰穿过了那道矮门。

tā máo zhe yāo chuān​guò le nà dào ǎi​mén.

He stooped down and walked through the low door.

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
Simplified
猫
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+8C93

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