咪
Meanings
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- 1.sound for calling a cat
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Wiktionary
- 1.meow
- 2.sound used to call a cat
- 3.used in 咪咪 (mīmī, “(slang) breasts; tits; boobs”)
- 4.sound used to call a duck, etc. (often reduplicated)
- 5.Suffix used to refer to certain poultry and livestock.
- 6.duck
- 7.When used with 囉／啰 (lo¹) at the end of a phrase, used to spell out something obvious.
- 8.When used with 囉／啰 (lo¹) or rising intonation at the end of a phrase, used to connect a condition to a result or suggestion.
- 9.Used as the negative of 係／系 (hai⁶) when asking a question.
- 10.don't
- 11.microphone (Classifier: 支 c)
- 12.only used in 咪唑 (mǐzuò, “imidazole”)
- 13.mile
- 14.mile per hour
- 15.kilometre per hour
- 16.to study hard
- 17.to peel with a knife
- 18.to pinch (with fingernails)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 米 (OC *miːʔ). Onomatopoeic.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你是我的媽咪嗎？
Are you my mommy?
貓咪爬上了核桃樹。
The cat climbed the walnut tree.
媽咪，我可以去游泳嗎？
Mommy, may I go swimming?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
妈咪 mommy (loanword)咪咪 oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc猫咪 kitty咪唑 imidazole (chemistry) (loanword)咪嘴 to lip-sync悄咪咪 see 悄悄咪咪[qiāo qiāo mī mī]欧咪呀给 (Tw) gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas) (loanword from Japanese "omiyage")悄悄咪咪 (dialect) quietly; stealthily唵嘛呢叭咪吽 om mani padme hum (Buddhist mantra)