猫

猫 māo in a sentence

Cat

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 13 sentences

猫 (māo) means Cat. Below are 13 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

她的猫很小。

Tā de māo hěn xiǎo.

Her cat is very small.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 猫

猫在家里。

Māo zài jiā li.

The cat is in the house.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 里

猫在椅子下。

Māo zài yǐzi xià.

The cat is under the chair.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 下

我有一只小猫。

Wǒ yǒu yì zhī xiǎo māo.

I have a little cat.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 小

我看见你的猫了。

Wǒ kànjiàn nǐ de māo le.

I saw your cat.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 看见

我的猫是黑色的。

Wǒ de māo shì hēisè de.

My cat is black.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 黑

熊猫又胖又可爱。

Xióngmāo yòu pàng yòu kě'ài.

Pandas are chubby and cute.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 熊猫

这是我的猫，它叫小白。

Zhè shì wǒ de māo, tā jiào Xiǎo Bái.

This is my cat; it is called Xiao Bai.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 它

熊猫是我最喜欢的动物。

Xióngmāo shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de dòngwù.

The panda is my favourite animal.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 动物

我们去动物园看熊猫吧。

Wǒmen qù dòngwùyuán kàn xióngmāo ba.

Let's go to the zoo to see the pandas.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 熊猫

From the graded readers

我有一只猫，它叫小白。

wǒ yǒu yī zhī māo, tā jiào xiǎo bái.

I have a cat called Xiaobai.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat

我们家有一只猫，它叫小白。

wǒmen jiā yǒu yī zhī māo, tā jiào xiǎo bái.

We have a cat called Xiaobai.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family

From the grammar library

我家有三只猫。

Wǒ jiā yǒu sān zhī māo.

We have three cats.

Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25

Words that contain 猫

Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.

熊猫 xióngmāo panda

Questions about 猫

How is 猫 used in a sentence?

This page shows 13 sentences using 猫 (māo, "Cat"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 猫 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 猫 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 猫 an HSK word?

Yes — 猫 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 猫?

The dictionary page for 猫 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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