猫砂貓砂 in English

Character breakdown

• 猫貓 māo cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1])
• 砂 shā sand

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).