yè māo zi

Traditional: 夜貓子

夜猫子 (yè māo zi) is a Chinese word meaning “owl; (fig.) night owl”.

Meanings

  1. 1owl
  2. 2(fig.) night owl

Characters in 夜猫子

夜yè · night猫māo · cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1])子zǐ · son

Related words

孩子child儿子son房子house妻子wife and children妻子wife案子long table; counter样子appearance小子(literary) youngster小子(coll.) boy子son子noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"猫cat (CL:隻|只[zhi1])

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