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三毛貓
sān máo māo
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tortoiseshell cat;
calico cat
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三腳貓
sān jiǎo māo
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jack of all trades
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三色貓
sān sè māo
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calico cat
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不管白貓黑貓，捉住老鼠就是好貓
bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo ， zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo
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it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
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公貓
gōng māo
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male cat;
tomcat
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凱蒂貓
kǎi dì māo
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Hello Kitty
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加菲貓
jiā fēi māo
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Garfield (comic strip cat created by Jim Davis)
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叮叮貓
dīng dīng māo
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(dialect) dragonfly
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吸貓
xī māo
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(neologism c. 2017) to dote on cats
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夜貓子
yè māo zi
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owl;
(fig.) night owl
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大山貓
dà shān māo
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Lynx rufus
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大熊貓
dà xióng māo
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giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
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天貓座
tiān māo zuò
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Lynx (constellation)
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小熊貓
xiǎo xióng māo
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lesser panda;
red panda;
firefox
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小貓
xiǎo māo
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kitten
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山貓
shān māo
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lynx;
bobcat;
leopard cat
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懶貓
lǎn māo
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lazy bones
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招財貓
zhāo cái māo
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maneki-neko or "lucky cat", Japanese figurine cat usually found at the entrance of shops, restaurants etc, believed to bring good fortune
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棕蓑貓
zōng suō māo
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see 蟹獴[xie4 meng3]
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椰子貓
yē zi māo
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Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called toddy cat
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波斯貓
bō sī māo
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Persian (cat)
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照貓畫虎
zhào māo huà hǔ
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lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject;
uninspired imitation
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熊貓
xióng māo
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panda;
CL:隻|只[zhi1]
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熊貓眼
xióng māo yǎn
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to have dark circles under one's eyes;
to have eyes like a panda
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熊貓血
xióng māo xuè
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(coll.) Rh-negative blood type
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