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Modern (Beijing) reading: māo
Preclassic Old Chinese: mhrāw
Classic Old Chinese: mhrāw
Western Han Chinese: mhrāw
Eastern Han Chinese: mhrāw
Early Postclassic Chinese: mhạ̄w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhạ̄w
Late Postclassic Chinese: mhạ̄w
Middle Chinese: mạw
English meaning : cat, wild cat
Russian meaning[s]: кошка
Comments: Also read *mhraw, MC mew id. Viet. mèo is colloquial; standard Sino-Vietnamese is miêu. For *mh cf. Xiamen miau1, Chaozhou ŋiǝu1, Longdu māw1; Shaowu mau7, Guangzhou māu1.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 153
Four-angle index: 1748
Karlgren code: 1159 c
Vietnamese reading: mèo
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