烏貓

See also: 乌猫

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	cat
trad. (烏貓)		烏	貓
simp. (乌猫)		乌	猫

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘-niau

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-niau
    • Tâi-lô: oo-niau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oniaw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niãu⁴⁴/

Noun

烏貓

1. (literally) black cat
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) a woman who is fashionable, trendy or popular
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien, obsolete) a bad girl

Coordinate terms

• 烏狗／乌狗 (“fashionable/trendy/popular man”)

Derived terms

• 烏貓姊仔 / 乌猫姊仔

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “烏貓”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “烏貓”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.