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猫 — stroke order
Watch how to write 猫 (māo) stroke by stroke. 猫 has 11 strokes and means “cat”. It appears in common words such as 熊猫 (panda) and 猫咪 (kitty). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 猫
The most common words that use 猫 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
熊猫xióngmāopanda猫咪māomīkitty猫头鹰māotóuyīngowl龙猫lóngmāochinchilla猫眼māoyǎnpeephole大熊猫dàxióngmāogiant panda
How 猫 is written
- Radical
- 犭
- Components
- 犭 ＋ 苗
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 犭 and a phonetic component 苗 (animal).