猫貓 in English

Measure word

• 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc attested

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 貓, the traditional character: 猫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• “一只猫？”老先生问。

  "A cat?" asked the old man.

• Ken有两只猫。

  Ken has two cats.

• Tom有三只猫。

  Tom has three cats.

• 上星期天我的家庭去了动物园看熊猫。

  My family went to the zoo to see pandas last Sunday.

• 不要弄醒睡觉的猫。

  Don't wake a sleeping cat.

• 两点怎么还不睡觉，你这个夜猫子！

  You stay up until two in the morning. You're such a night owl!

• 他有两只猫。

  He keeps two cats.

• 你是熊猫。

  You are a panda.

All example sentences with 猫