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The character 喵 is an onomatopoeic phonosemantic compound representing a cat's meow. It combines the semantic radical 口 'mouth', indicating a sound or vocalization, with the phonetic component 苗 miáo, which lends its pronunciation despite meaning 'seedling'. Because it directly imitates an animal noise, 喵 has no extended or figurative meanings; it functions purely as a transcription of the feline sound in both spoken and written language.
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