加菲猫

加菲貓
jiāfēimāo
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Garfield (the comic-strip cat)
  2. 2 Exotic Shorthair cat (flat-faced Persian type, colloquial)

Examples

Jiāfēimāo zuì ài chī qiāncéngmiàn.
Garfield loves lasagna the most.
Tā yǎng le yī zhī jiāfēimāo, liǎn biǎnbiǎn de tèbié méng.
She has an Exotic Shorthair — its flat face is so cute.

Tips

usage
Two meanings: (1) the American cartoon cat Garfield; (2) by extension, the Exotic Shorthair breed whose flat round face and squashed nose resemble the cartoon. When Chinese cat lovers say they own a 加菲猫, they almost always mean the breed.

In Pop Culture

加菲猫 Jiāfēimāo
Garfield
Jim Davis's lasagna-obsessed, Monday-hating orange tabby — hugely popular in China since the 1990s newspaper translations.

Stroke Order

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